Portrait of Anastasia Naryshkina with Her Children Alexandra and Tatyana
Between 1709 and 1715
- oil on canvas. 180,2 х 130,8
Received in 1924 from the State Museum Fund Provenance: collection of the Golitsyns, Kuzminki Estate, Dubrovitsy, Moscow Province- State Tretyakov Gallery
Employing the method for dating portraits that is based on analyzing details of clothing depicted (the mother’s headwear and the dress of the youngest daughter) one can assume that this painting was made between 1709 and 1715.
Anastasia Naryshkina (née Princess Myshetskaya; 1680 – after 1722) Daughter of Yakov Efimovich Myshetsky and Feodora Ivanovna. Wife (from 1702) of Kirill Alexeyevich Naryshkin (circa 1670–1723), and half cousin of Tsaritsa Natalia Kirillovna. They had several children: Tatiana (1704–1757), Sophia (1708–1737), Daria (1709–1730), Semyon (1710–1775), Peter (1713–1770), Natalia (1716–1770). There is no biographical information concerning Alexandra Kirillovna, her name is not mentioned in any published genealogies of the Naryshkin family. Her daughter, Tatiana Kirillovna (1704–1757) was the second wife of General Admiral Mikhail Golitsyn (1684–1764).