Louis-Marin BONNET
(1736 – Paris – 1793)
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Tête de femme (Portrait of Ekaterina Stroganoff) – 1773
After Louis Jean François Lagrenée.
Crayon manner, printed in red and black on laid heavy paper. Numbered ‘24’. Lettered: ‘Dedié a Madame la Comtesse de Stroganoff, née Princesse Troubetskoy/Par son très humble et très obéissant Serviteur L.Bonnet/Tiré du Cabinet de Monsieur Lagrenée Peintre du Roy/Gravé d’après le Dessin de Mr.Lagrenée, par L. Bonnet Gratifiée et Pensionné du Roy/A Paris, chez Bonnet rue St.Jacques au coin de celle du Plâtre.’ Inscription in brown ink under the image, lower right.
Watermark: Fin De (?)
Size of sheet: 53.5 x 34.5 cm.
Herold 24 (ill.fig.30).
Provenance: unidentified collector’s mark.
Superb impression with fresh colour, large margins all around the platemark. Some flattened creases from the folds on the edges of the sheet, some time staining, production ink stain in the lower left corner, otherwise in very good condition. Rare.
Louis-Marin Bonnet: Tête de femme
This print is after a pastel portrait of Princess Ekaterina Stroganoff as a young girl by Lagrenée, which he made around 1760. Ekaterina Stroganoff (née Trubetskoy) (1744-1815) was the daughter of Senator Prince Trubetsckoy, influential figure at the court of Catherine the Great. Princess Trubetskoy was distinguished by her beauty and intelligence. In 1769 she married the Count Alexander Stroganoff, whose famed art collection later became the foundation of the Hermitage Museum painting collection in Saint-Petersburg.