Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna

[freez]

still on the board, not too lazy to go >

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I think the school and - in any case, not Russian, and displayed no Maria Leuchtenberg .
 Yes , compared to the portrait by Neff (in particular , with a portrait in 1866 , despite its obvious complementarity ) is a general similarity . But only bschee .
As for the " recent photos ": it is not clear which photos were meant . No pictures , MN, reliably dated to the mid -1870s , I could not find (if you can - show , please). True, the images of the 1860s in the public domain - abound. And almost all Maria - very plump after last delivery , heavy, but still stately, quite magnificent (and in my opinion - not having the slightest resemblance to the lady depicted in the portrait discussed ).
 Arguments against , of course , much more , but in my view - and all so clear ... (But this is - in my >).

[freez]

bow hat

[Игорь Гурьев]

Сообщение от Dilettante, 2390431

shows no Maria

It may be true, but she has not died of old old woman, and it looks now as such.

Perhaps for the last time she was sick, and it looked like here on the portrait.


However, who knows ...

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Сообщение от Igor Guryev, 2390821"

Perhaps the last time she was sick, and it looked like here on the portrait.
However, who knows ...

Everyone knows (I would now smiley giggled, if not for the sad theme). Ill. Long and hard. Hardly moved. (Heart and some chronic disease legs due to which in the early 1840s at the Mariinsky Palace, along with the stairs was arranged sloping ramp. MN for ease of movement on foot and in a wheelchair).
Physical suffering. Mental suffering. Fear the wrath of his beloved father. Need to conceal a relationship with a beloved spouse. Quarrel with his mother. Public rebuke to his aunt. And in the end - a very humiliating terms of the highest sex-marriage recognition with Stroganov. Take for instance the notorious: "... Her Imperial Highness requires each connector, Bb sluchaѣ pregnancy leave on time rodov, ot stolits and drugih mѣst prebyvanіya IMPERIAL Familіi", or
"Graf Hryhoriy Stroganov mozhet imѣt pomѣschenіe Bb St. Peterburgskom and zagorodnyh Dvortsah Grand Duchess MARІI Nikolaevna, but not otherwise, kak on zvanіyu prichislennago to Court NL. On dolzhen not be ting her, kak suprug NL or Bb familnyh, or Bb inyh sobranіyah ") .
Maria looked at the last period of his life is much older than his years, and I felt very bad. Maybe that's why seldom posed. Even photographers.

And yet, "... I got tired of looking at them, and I went on a Malcev market where, say, one blind man was given a knitted shawl" ...

[Николай Левенко]

Another photograph of vel.kn.
Maria Nikolaevna.

[Сергей Мельников]

Сообщение от freez

bow hat

Removing the head, bow hat ...
In the spirit of the time.