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Varvara Ivanovna Ladomirskaya

1800
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
Vigée Le Brun painted this portrait in Moscow for the sitter’s mother, a personal friend. Varvara Ivanovna (1785–1840) was an illegitimate child of Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov and Countess Stroganova, who had left her husband in St. Petersburg to be with her lover. In this compelling image, the sitter is represented in Greek costume: a chemise dress under an embroidered stole fastened at the shoulder.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Varvara Ivanovna Ladomirskaya
  • Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
  • Date: 1800
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 25 × 21 3/4 in. (63.5 × 55.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, Museum Purchase, Derby Fund (1963.019)
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings