$9,375
oil on canvas 47. 5 x 38 cm. (18 5/8 x 15 in.) LITERATURE The nearly identical version of the work by Johann Baptist Lampi is illustrated in "Un ritrattista nell`Europa dell corti" by Fernando Mazzocca, Roberto Pancheri and Alessandro Casagrande, Giovanni Battista Lampi 1751 – 1830 (Trento 2001), p. 232, n. 31. This painting is in the permanent collection of the Castello del Buonconsiglio museum, in Trento, Italy (see reference image 1), and a preparatory sketch for this painting was recently sold at Galerie Bassenge (see reference image 2). Please see Lot Notes below Vladimir Borovikovsky received his earliest art instruction from his father, a limner icon painter, before catching the eye of Empress Catherine II and being engaged by the Empress as a court painter and student under Johann Baptist Lampi. It appears that while Borovikovsky was still Lampi`s student that he painted the figure of forming the present lot. Borovikovsky met the Empress while she was visiting the newly conquered Crimea and staying with Borovikovsky`s friend, Vasyl Kapnist, the Marshal of Nobility of the Kiev Gubernia. To please the Empress, Kapnist commissioned Borovikovsky to paint pair of allegorical works featuring the monarch for her chamber. The paintings had left a great impression on Catherine, and she requested that the artist move to St. Petersburg. Borovikovsky accepted the offer and after establishing himself in the capital in 1787, made the city his permanent residence. Although still a
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2017-03-18
