JEAN MARC NATTIER. 1685-1766

42 PORTRAIT OF A LADY. 1757

Rumiantsev Museum, Moscow; since 1924 The Pushkin

Oil on canvas. 54 X 45 cm. Inv. No 1034 Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Signed and dated right: Nattier px. 1757 Exhibitions: 1918 Moscow, Cat. 71; 1955 Moscow, Cat.,

It is a replica of the picture that had belonged to p. 49; 1956 Leningrad, Cat., p. 43; 1972 Moscow, Cat.,

M. A. Vasilchikov, was taken abroad and sold in the p. 90

early twentieth century by the art dealer Heinemann Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, pp. 55^56; Кат.

as a portrait of Princess Holstein-Boeck. ГМИИ 1957, p. 101; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 136; Dimier

Provenance: until 1918 The Gudovich Collection, 1928—30, vol. 2, p. 128, No 132; Reau 1929, No 608;

Vvedenskoye Estate, Moscow province; until 1924 The Sterling 1957, ill. 33, p. 49; Золотев 1968, p. 41, ill.

42 PORTRAIT OF A LADY. 1757

43 THE BATTLE OF POLTAVA. 1717

Oil on canvas. 90 X Ш cm. Inv. No 1035

Signed and dated lower center:

Nattier jn-r p. /7/7

The picture was commissioned by Peter the Great,

whose portrait Nattier painted in Amsterdam in 1717.

Shortly after that it passed out of public sight and

was believed to be lost. It was discovered in the

museum of Sychovka, a town in the Smolensk Region,

in 1926. A copy is in the Ostankino Estate Museum

near Moscow.

Provenance: until 1919 The Meshcherskys Collection,

Sychovka district, Smolensk province; 1919—26 The

Sychovka Museum, Smolensk Region; since 1926 The

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1955 Moscow, Cat. 49 (entitled The Battle near Lesnaya); 1956 Leningrad, Cat. 43 (entitled The Battle near Lesnaya); 1965 Bordeaux, Cat. 27; 1965— 66 Paris, Cat. 26; 1974—75 Paris (Grand Palais), Cat. 506; 1975 Moscow

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 55; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 101; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 136; E. Гаршин, "Ж. М. Наттье в его отношениях к России", Вестник изящных искусств, 1888, 6, р. 435; P. de Nol-hac, Nattier, peintre de la cour de Louis XV, Paris, 1910, p. 24; Reau 1924, p. 73; Reau 1929, No 607; В. Мамуровский, ''Полтавский бой Ж. М. Наттье", Жизнь музея. Бюллетень ГМИИ, 1930, р. 25; L. Reau, Le Rayonnement de Paris аи XVIIIе siecle, Paris, 1946, p. 138

43 THE BATTLE OF POLTAVA. 1717