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signed Harlamoff l.l.

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

G. M. Lotinga Fine Art Galleries, London
Acquired by the present owner in 1978

CATALOGUE NOTE

Harlamoff was born in Saratov, Russia. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, and won a gold medal and travel scholarship in 1868 for his painting The Return of the Prodigal Son. The stipend enabled him to study in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under the great portrait painter Léon Bonnat. Harlamoff's work was exhibited in the Russian section of the Décennale exhibition, part of the Paris 1900 Exposition Universelle. His work subsequently became very popular with Russian and French collectors.

A renowned portraitist in his day, his sitters included Ivan Tourgenev, Tsar Alexander II, and Prince Demidoff. However, Harlamoff is most renowned today for his informal portraits of young girls, chosen for their beauty and innocence. The sitter in the present work modelled for Harlamoff on several occasions (for examples see fig. 1 and Sotheby's New York, 19th Century Art, 3 May 2000, lot 171).

Fig. 1, Alexei Harlamoff, Sisters, oil on canvas, 1888, sold: Sotheby's, New York, 23 April 2004, lot 43 ---- digi ref 351D05101