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ART PAGE 57

Lady Fitzgerald - ?
oil on canvas, 30-3/4 x 26 in
Born Pamela Sims, she married in 1792 to the Irish revolutionary Edward Fitzgerald.
Marie Antoinette - 1779-89
oil on canvas, 37-3/8 x 27-1/8 in feigned oval
This picture always hung in the room of Marie Antoinette's daughter, the Duchesse d'Angouleme, who said that it was a "speaking likeness" of her mother.

Princess Maria Kochubei - 1793
oil on canvas
Maria Vasilyevna Kochubei (1799-1844), born Vasilchikova, was the wife of Victor Pavlovich Kochubei, a diplomat and statesman. In the reign of Alexander I, minister of the interior and chancellor; after 1827, head of the Council of State and the cabinet. She is shown drawing a bust portrait of her uncle, Prince Vasilchikov. A replica of the present portrait is in the Arkhangelskoye Estate Museum near Moscow. The painting was received in 1933 through the State Museum Reserve from the L. M. Kochubei collection in Leningrad.


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