#princess anna alexandrovna golitsyna

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Princess Anna Alexandrovna Golitsyna

Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842)

Date: ca. 1797

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

After marrying Prince Boris Andreyevich Golitsyn, Princess Boris (1763–1842), as she came to be called, raised a family of eight children. She also possessed of one of the largest fortunes in the empire and hosted an influential salon in St. Petersburg.

For this monumental portrait, she wears at-home dress: a delicate chemise dress with a short-sleeved silk peignoir distinguished by a range of lush complementary colors. Her exotic crimson turban is decorated with a panache of feathers.

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Anna Alexandrovna Galitzin, nee Gruzinsky. By Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun.

Princess Ana Gruzinskaya Golitsyna (1763—1842) was a Georgian royal princess of the Bagrationi dynasty of Mukhrani branch.

She was the daughter of Prince Alexander Bagration-Gruzinsky, grandchild of Prince Bakar of Kartli and great-grandchild of King Vakhtang VI of Kartli. Her mother, Princess Daria Alexandrovna Menshikova, was the granddaughter of Prince Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, who was the de facto ruler of Russia from 1725–1727.