Domenico Bossi (1765-1853)
Count Alexander Nikitch Panin (1791-1850)
On ivory
59 mm. diam., gilt-metal frame
Domenico Bossi (1765-1853)
Count Alexander Nikitch Panin (1791-1850)
On ivory
59 mm. diam., gilt-metal frame
Christie’s, Geneva, 15 November 1988, lot 311.
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專家說明
The sitter was the son of Count Nikita Petrovich Panin and his wife Countess Sophie Vladimirovna Panin (see previous lots). He married Alexandrine Sergeevna Tolstoy. He played an active part in the Napoleonic Wars.