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PORTRAIT OF GRAND DUCHESS ELENA PAVLOVNA

Creator(s): Unknown (Painter)

On view in: Entry Hall


About this object

Represented is a young woman in three-quarters length standing, her body seen from the back turned three quarters to the left, her head turned towards the spectator, her hair is pulled back into a pony tail except for a braid in front concealing her ear from which hangs a transparent tear-drop earring, a string of pearls lies across the top of her forehead. She wears an off-the-shoulder lavender velvet dress with a tight bodice and full skirt, attached to her upper left arm by a brooch, is a billowing loop of white gauze, her left hand touches the edge of a book open to an illustration of a landscape, the book and two others rest on a table with an ornate scrolled base, at the left is a tall glass vase with a bouquet of flowers, behind the subjects head is a piece of drapery with a floral pattern.

Object name:
PORTRAIT OF GRAND DUCHESS ELENA PAVLOVNA
Made from:
Oil on canvas
Made in:
GERMANY
Date made:
c. 1836
Size:
139.7 × 104.1 cm (55 × 41 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
51.117
Class:
PAINTING
Signature marks:
label Eigentum des Herzogs / von Mecklenburg on back of frame in lower left corner
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973