ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1792) Princess Sofia Albertina (1775) Oil on canvas (73 x 58 cm) Stockholm, Nationalmuseum This portrait is quite unusual, considering it represents a royal princess and is what was known as a half-length. The usual format employed in France for that kind of portrait was a canvas known as “of 30 sols” (91 …
Category: Swedish painters
The Queen of Spades
ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1793) Princess Natalya Petrovna Golitsyna (1777) Oil on canvas (63 x 54 cm) Mälmo Museum of Art, Sweden To enlarge the picture, click on it and "Open in a new tab" Born into the noble Chernyshyev family, Natalya Petrovna Golitsyna (1741-1837) was the daughter of the diplomat Pyotr Chernyshev, ambassador to the Prussian court …
Prince Vladimir Golitsyn
ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1793) Prince Vladimir Golitsyn (1762) Oil on canvas (60 x 50 cm) Malmö Art Museum, Sweden To enlarge the image, click on it and open it on a new tab Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn (1731-1798) was a high-ranking Russian nobleman. His family was very rich and influential. His father was the grandson of Prince …
The Marquis de Choiseul
ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1793) César Gabriel de Choiseul-Chevigny, Marquis de Choiseul (1763-66) Oil on canvas (130 x 100) National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden To enlarge the picture, click on it and open it in a new tab César Gabriel de Choiseul-Chevigny (1712-1785), Marquess of Choiseul and later duke of Praslin was a soldier and a statesman who …
A Lady in Pink
ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1793) Portrait of a lady in a pink dress (1755-1765) Oil on canvas (64 x 53) Private collection This portrait belongs to the first years of Roslin in France; this means the second half of the 1750s. We could say that this portrait symbolises the 18th century, particularly the period between 1750 and …
Tha Aristocratic Engraver
ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1793) The Count of Caylus (1753) Oil on canvas (190 x 93 cm) National Museum, Warsaw, Poland To enlarge the picture, click on it and "Open in a new window" Among the paintings exhibited by Roslin at the Salon of 1753 was the portrait of Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières, better known as the Count …
A Young Lady In Blue
ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1793) Portrait of an unknown lady (1753) Oil on canvas (65 x 54 cm) National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden To enlarge the image, click on it and "Open in a new window" The identity of this pretty young lady is not known; according to the museum’s website, she is described as “An unknown lady, …
A Great Friend
ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1793) The painter Joseph-Marie Vien (1757) Oil on canvas (50 x 39 cm) Château and National Museum of Versailles To enlarge the image, click on it and "Open in a new window" Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809) was Roslin’s closest friend. He was one of the witnesses to his marriage in 1759 and helped him …
A Swedish Nobleman
ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1793) Baron Leonard Klinckowström (1758) Oil on canvas (90 x 70 cm) Synebrichoff Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland To enlarge the image, click on it and "Open in a new window" Thure Leonard Klinckowström (1735 - 1821) was a Swedish baron, Chief Marshal and President of the Court of Wismar (named after the city …
A Beautiful Sitter
ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1793) Portrait of Marie-Suzanne Giroust, the painter´s wife (1763) Oil on canvas (56 x 46 cm) National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden To enlarge the picture, click on it and "Open in a new window" This beautiful and charming portrait of his wife is apparently the first one Roslin painted. It is dated 1763, which …
Old Masters 