Lot 528: Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)

Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)
Portrait of Countess Sophia Alexandrovna Bobrinsky (1799-1866)
signed 'Socolow' (lower right); inscribed 'Sophie Bobrinsky' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white and with gum arabic in places, on paper laid down on blue paper
8 7/8 x 6 7/8 in. (22.7 x 17.4 cm.)
Executed in 1827

Moscow, Museum of Private Collections, Pushkin's Contemporaries: 100 Portraits in Watercolour from a Parisian Collection, May - July 1999. Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 'I see myself as if in a mirror...' Contemporaries of A. C. Pushkin in the Portraits of P. F. Sokolov, 2003, no. 78.

M. Baruch & I. Sakharova, Russian Portraits in Watercolour, 1825-1855, Paris, 1994, pp. 145 and 146, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Piotr Feodorovich Sokolov. Russian intimate Portraits, Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 2003, illustrated p. 65, no. 78.

Nicholas Lynn, London.

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