Displayed within a single frame are four portraits of Count Sergei Grigoryevich Stroganov’s children – Alexander, Sophia, Yelizaveta and Pavel – painted by the German artist Caroline Franzisca Tridon. She was known for her works in the miniature genre, portrait paintings and lithographs. From 1820 to 1827, Tridon was a pupil in the Paris studios of Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Augustin, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, and Robert Lefèvre. Afterwards, she worked in Dresden, where she fulfilled a considerable number of commissions for the Saxon court.
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Portrait of Count Alexander Sergeevich Stroganov
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watercolour painting, gouache
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5,8х4,8 cm (oval); 15,9х14 cm (plaquette)
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Originally in the Counts Stroganov collection
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ОРм-1250
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