Unknown painter. Portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna

Unknown painter

Portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna

1790s

oil on canvas. 60 х 47,5
Ж-3973
Пост. в 1925 от Н. К. Герасимова

Period 18th century
CategoryPortrait
Keywords The Epoch of Paul I (1796-1801) | female portrait | The Romanovs | hairstyles | female costume | folk costume | headdress | Jewellery
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Alexandra Pavlovna, Grand Duchess (1783-1801) — daughter of Emperor Paul I and his wife Maria Feodorovna. A favorite of her father, educated and talented, she inherited artistic inclinations from her mother — she drew, sculpted from wax, and was engaged in translations from French. In 1799 she married Archduke Joseph of Austria, Palatine of Hungary.

The girl is shown in a festive brocade dushegreya and a silk blouse with lace. Catherine the Great, writing to her long-time correspondent Baron von Grimm in February 1796, raptly described a court masquerade ball where her granddaughters “danced a Russian dance to Russian music, which aroused everybody's delight… All of them … were dressed in splendid costumes”.

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