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Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (1727–1797)

Artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, b. 1755, Paris; d. 1842, Paris)

Datecirca 1795–1800

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions33 x 24 in. (83.8 x 61 cm)
Frame: 41 1/2 x 35 in. (105.4 x 88.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.224

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ProvenanceCreated St. Petersburg, Russia, circa 1795-1800; the sitter or his family, St. Petersburg [1]; to his niece, Countess Varvara Nikolaevna Golovin (1766-1821), St. Petersburg; to her daughter, Elisabeth, Countess Leon Potocka (1801-1867); to her daughter, Leonie Wanda, Countess Casimir Lanckoronska (1821-1893), Vienna; to her son Count Karol Lanckoronski (1848-1933), Vienna; to his children Count Antoni (1893-1965), Countess Karolina (1898-2002), and Adelajda (1903-1980) Lanckoronski, Vienna; illegally confiscated by the Gestapo, Vienna, 1939 or November 1942 [2]; taken to Bad Aussee for Adolf Hitler [3]; recovered by the Allies and taken to Munich Central Collecting Point [4]; restituted to Countess Karolina Lanckoronska (1898-2002), Vienna, July 1946; [Frederick Mont and Newhouse Galleries, New York, by 1951]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

[1] The painting may have been painted posthumously.
[2] Jerzy Miziolek's 1995 article, "The Lanckoronski Collection in Poland," notes on p. 31: "...on 1st September [1939] the war broke out and the Collection as well as the palace were confiscated by the Nazis...It was the director of the Dresden Gallery, Dr. Hans Posse who personally organized the confiscation...It is also known that in November 1942 Hans Posse again sent one of his collaborators to Vienna in order to inspect all the art objects in the collection remaining in the Lanckoronski palace."
[3] Aussee nr. 568
[4] MNr. 645. The painting was received on June 24th, 1945 and shipped out on July 30, 1946.