Borovikovsky?
 

Here's a thumbnail (№ 1) from the private collection offers a Munich auction http://www.kettererkunst.com/details...03&anummer=408 in May.

Lot: 39

Russland

Porträt einer jungen Adeligen. 19th century.

Oil on zinc.
Monogrammed "CB" (or Cyrillic "SV") in lower right. 15,8 x 12,4 cm (6,2 x 4,8 in), in oval. [CB].


But the portraits of Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna Romanova (daughter of Paul I) on the Internet ( except the first, which is an auction ) Borovikovsky hand (if you believe the Internet) )

The question , I suppose, all clear - Borovikovsky or not?

More likely a miniature copy of his paintings.

The second is similar to Borovikovsky, but not "live" is hard to say.
It is not known how much interfered restorers.

Bravo! Here in the State Tretyakov Gallery also think so. :D> Already since 1939. And until 1939, to believe in the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin , and before that - the ... (however, recount the history of the collection led the existence of a portrait . Book. Alexandra Pavlovna, the Palatine of Hungary , I for some reason do not want. Books has not been canceled ).

And in fact, "bravo": my opinion the second time coincided with the opinion of experts famous museums (as in the case of "Kustodiev"), only the second time for some reason you did not like.

I did not like ? Strange conclusion , however.
I am somewhat surprised that you have no reason, all of a sudden began to speak thoughtfully about the possibility of the true picture , already ( attention to the screen !) '74 kept in the Tretyakov Gallery, and absolutely no one causing the slightest doubt. :D>
Just in case - explain ( personally for you , because no one else in similar needs no explanation ) : In the series of figurative painting is placed in a standard .
In this regard, I would like to know: what do you personally think about the true picture of the Bogolyubov donated Saratov Art Museum by Bogolyubov ? Surely here your opinion "is the same "? It risks becoming the opening decades ...

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It is clear that the germ.
Auction - languid and helplessness copy of Borovikovsky, though written much later, as I see it ...