English: ZAKHAROV, PETR (1816-1846)

Portrait of Anna Grigorievna Ermolova (1807—1852), née Obolonskaya, with Her Children, signed "Zakharov.Da=/dayurtskii.-" and dated "18 IV/X 40".

ZAKHAROV, PETR (1816-1846)

Portrait of Anna Grigorievna Ermolova with Her Children, signed "Zakharov.Da=/dayurtskii.-" and dated "18 IV/X 40".

350,000–500,000 GBP

Provenance: Collection of Ya.M. Shapiro, Moscow. Private collection, Europe.

Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the experts L. Markina and I. Lomize.

Exhibited: Vystavka P.Z. Zakharova-Chechentsa, Museum of V.A. Tropinin, Moscow, December 1986 - June 1987 (label on the stretcher).

Literature: N. Shabanyants, “Poiski i nakhodki. Taina zagadochnykh bukv”, Groznenskiy rabochiy, No. 266, 19 November 1978, illustrated and mentione T. Mazaeva, The Artist Petr Zakharov (Chechenets), PhD thesis, Leningrad, 1982, pp. 334–335, illustrated. L. Markina, “Raboty khudozhnika Petra Zakharova v sobranii Tretyakovskoi galerei”, The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine, No. 3, 2011, p. 90, illustrated.

Related Literature: N. Shabanyants, Akademik zhivopisi P.Z. Zakharov, Grozny, 1974, the work is mentioned on p. 16.

Portraits of members of the family of General Petr Ermolov occupy a special place in the oeuvre of the remarkable 19th century artist Petr Zakharov. His work has long been dispersed among the major museum collections – the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Tropinin Museum and others – but is ex- tremely rarely encountered in private collections. Accordingly, the appearance on the market of this portrait of Anna Grigorievna Ermolova, which comes from the famous Moscow collector Yan Moiseevich Shapiro, may be regarded as a unique phenomenon.