Description
Fine late 18thc engraving on paper of the family of Princess Bariatinski who is seated on the left holding a miniature, her two brothers stand flanking her sister on the right.
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The intermediary draughtsman was Giovanni Battista dell’Era and the etching is After Angelica Kauffman, print being made by Raphael Morghen and published in Florence Italy in 1793.
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ABOUT THE PRINCESS
Leonilla Ivanovna Bariatinskaia, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn was a Russian aristocrat who married Ludwig, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn. She was the subject of a number of portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
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Princess Leonilla Ivanovna Bariatinskaya was born on 9 May 1816 in Moscow.
She was a daughter of Prince Ivan Ivanovich Bariatinsky, a member of one of the most influential families of the Russian nobility.
She married one of the Tsar’s aides de camp, Ludwig, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1799-1866) on 23 October 1834 at Castle Marino, Kursk Oblast.
He was a Russian aristocrat of German descent, who was known in Russia as Lev Petrovich Wittgenstein.
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CONDITION
Very Good and well preserved under glass and sealed verso with wooden panel.
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FRAME
An outstanding quality 19thc frame finished in gloss black with cast gilt corner mounts in the shape of a large clover leaf.
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MEASUREMENTS ( Including Frame )
Height 30.25 Inches ( 77 cm )
Width. 23.5. Inches ( 60 cm )
Depth 1.75 Inches ( 4.5 cm )