Live Auction 15499Russian Art
Charles-Joseph de la Celle, Chevalier de Chateaubourg (1758-1837)
Lot 307

Charles-Joseph de la Celle, Chevalier de Chateaubourg (1758-1837)

Closed4 June 2018

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GBP 10,000

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Charles-Joseph de la Celle, Chevalier de Chateaubourg (1758-1837)
Countess Sophie Vladimirovna Panin (1770-1844)
Signed and dated ‘le chr De / [..]ateaubourg / 1797' (mid-left)
On ivory
Oval, 80 mm. high, gilt-metal mount

Monsieur et Madame Alexandre Alexandrovich Popoff (1880-1964), Paris, in 1928.
Galerie Popoff, Paris.
Christie’s, Geneva, 15 November 1988, lot 310.

Specialist note

The sitter was the daughter of Count Vladimir Grigorievich Orlov and she married Count Nikita Petrovich Panin in 1790. An octagonal sketch of the sitter, inscribed and dated 'La Comtesse de Panin / 6 Sept: 1799.', is in the artist's sketchbook which is now in the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
We are indebted to Michael Asvarishch, Curator of the Numismatic Department at the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg for his help with our research.