In the portrait - the Russian Princess Beloselskaya Leonilla Wittgenstein

Author: Franz Xaver Winterhalter

German painter and lithographer, one of the most fashionable portrait painters of the mid-19th century. A master of secular and court portraits, he created a one-of-a-kind gallery of princesses and aristocrats from almost all European countries.

Nee Princess Baryatinskaya is a lady-in-waiting of the St. Petersburg court from the Baryatinsky family. She shone in the salons of Pushkin's time with southern beauty, captured in famous portraits by Winterhalter, who called her the most beautiful of all the ladies who posed for him. Having lived to the age of 101, she probably set a record of longevity among the highest aristocracy of tsarist Russia