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Portrait of Countess Liubov Il'inichna Kusheleva, née Bezborodko (1783-1809) with children Aleksandr (1800-1855) and Grigorii (1801-1855) signed in Cyrillic and dated 'Painted by Borovikovskii/1803.' (lower right) oil on canvas 38 x 30 5/8 in. (96.6 x 77.7 cm.)

Provenance

Varvara Aleksandrovna Kochubei, née Kusheleva-Bezborodko (1829-1894), the granddaughter of the sitter, St Petersburg. Vasilli Petrovich Kochubei (1868-1940), the son of the above, Kiev, circa 1900s. Prince Serge Obolensky (1890-1978) and Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902-1956), London, circa 1925. By descent to the present owner.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Vystavka russkikh portretov [Exhibition of Russian Portraits], St Petersburg, 1905, listed pp. 32 and 100, no. 183. Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich, Portraits Russes des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, St Petersburg, 1907, vol. III, 1st ed., no. 6, illustrated pl. VI, listed p. II. Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of Russian art, London, 1935, listed p. 33, no. 131. T. Alekseeva, Vladimir Lukich Borovikovskii i russkaia kultura na rubezhe 18go-19go vekov [Vladimir Lukich Borovikovskii and Russian culture at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries], 1975, illustrated p. 241, listed p. 410, no. 143 and p. 360, no. 217. Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich, [S. Nikitin (ed.)], Russkie portrety XVIII i XIX vekov [Russian portraits of the XVIII and XIX centuries], Moscow, 2003, illustrated p. 58 no. 6, listed p. 151 III, no. 6.

Exhibited

Probably: St Petersburg, The Tauride Palace, Vystavka russkikh portretov [Exhibition of Russian Portraits], 1905, no. 183.