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| Princess Varvara Nikolaevna Gagarina (1762–1802) |
Artist:Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris)
Date:ca. 1780–82
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:Oval, 31 1/2 x 25 in. (80 x 63.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. William M. Haupt, from the collection of Mrs. James B. Haggin, 1965
Varvara Nikolaevna Golitsyna, who was born on July 7, 1762, married Prince Sergei Sergeyevich Gagarin (1745-1798) and was the mother of four children. She died at thirty-nine. As Greuze never went to Russia, the princess must have visited Paris either shortly before or after her wedding. Her pose is distant and formal, while her costume is not unlike the dresses worn by the queen, Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), in the early 1780s.
Catalogue Entry
Varvara Nikolaevna was born on July 7, 1762. The daughter of Prince Nikolai Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1727–1787) and Princess Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Golovina (1728–1769), she married Prince Sergei Sergeyevich Gagarin (1745–1798). She seems to have had four children, and died early in 1802 at the age of thirty-nine. As Greuze never went to St. Petersburg, the princess must have visited Paris either before or after her wedding, the date of which has not been discovered. Her upright pose is both distant and formal. Her costume is similar to the white dresses worn at the time by the French queen, Marie Antoinette (1755–1793). The oval canvas is conspicuously signed on the pedestal in the foreground at the bottom.
Katharine Baetjer 2016
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