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19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN ARTIST Portrait of Countess Aleksandra Vladimirovna Musina-Pushkina, 1853 oil on canvas 71 x 56 cm (28 x 21 5/8in.) dated and inscribed in Cyrillic lower right K.: Lvov
PROVENANCE Property of a Russian Orthodox priest, Tolstoy Foundation, Valley Cottage, New York Pedersten Gallery, Lambertville, New Jersey Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2008
LITERATURE Jacques Ferrand, Histoire et genealogie des nobles et comtes Moussine-Pouchkine, (Paris, 1994)
LOT NOTES: Jacques Ferrand, author of Histoire et genealogie des nobles et comtes Moussine-Pouchkine, identifies the sitter in his letter to the past owner, dated October 4, 2000 (a copy of the letter is available on request).