Vigee Le Brun ART Page 99

ART PAGE 99

	Prince Ivan Ivanovich Bariatinsky - 1800 oil on canvas, 77.5 x 68 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow "I was painting the portrait of the young Prince Bariatinsky, and as I had begged him not to wear powder he had agreed not to do so" - Vigée Le Brun. Prince Ivan Ivanovich Bariatinsky, was the son of Prince Ivan Sergeevich Bariatinsky "le beau Russe" Ambassador to the Court of Louis XVI and his wife Duchess Catherine of Holstein-Sonderberg-Beck. I.I. Bariatinsky was Russian minister in Munich. First he married Frances Dutton, daughter of the 1st Baron Sherborne, and 2ndly Countess Maria Fedorovna von Keller. The exhibition catalogue, "Recollection of Italy, Testimony", 2003, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, indicates that the painting is in a private collection of princes Chigi, Castellfusano (descendants of Bariatinsky), in Rome. This portrait was displayed in the 2015 Paris Exhibition. View and image of the framed painting.
	Baron Alexander Sergeevich Stroganov - ? oil on canvas, oval Location unknown
	Daria Michailovna Opotchinine, nee Princess Koutousov Smolensky - 1801 oil on canvas, 27 x 21 in Private Collection Princess Smolensky (1778-1845) was a daughter of the famous Field Marshall. Vigee Le Brun also painted her mother, Serene Princess Ekaterina Il'inichna Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky, and her sister, Countess Prascovie Michailovna Tolstoy.Signed and dated lower right: L.E. Vigee / Le Brun / a petersbourg / 1801