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Varvara Nikolaevna Golovina. Ritratto di Varvara Nikolaevna Galicina, di Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Varvara Nikolaevna Golicyna, nata Varvara Nikolaevna Golovina (in russo Варвара Николаевна Головина?) ( 1766 – Parigi, 1821 ), è stata una nobildonna e artista russa .
Countess Varvara Nikolayevna Golovina, née Princess Golitsyna (Russian: Варвара Николаевна Головина, княжна Голицына, 1766–11 September 1821) was an artist and memoirist from Russian nobility, maid of honour of the Russian court, a close confidant of Empress Elizabeth, favorite Ivan Shuvalov ...
Title: Princess Varvara Nikolaevna Gagarina (1762–1802) Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris) Date: ca. 1780–82. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: Oval, 31 1/2 x 25 in. (80 x 63.5 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. William M. Haupt, from the collection of Mrs. James B. Haggin, 1965 ...
"The Western listener will hardly be aware of any Russian composers from this period, let alone of any women composers. In fact, these Russian women composer...
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artist writer. Countess Varvara Nikolayevna Golovina née Princess Golitsyna was an artist and memoirist from Russian nobility and a close confidant of Empress Elizabeth. Background. Her mother, Praskovia Ivanovna, was a sister of Ivan Shuvalov (1727-1798). Varvara grew up on the Petrovsky estate in the Moscow province.
Countess Golovina sweeps up her shawl and looks at us with startling candour. Vigée-Lebrun met and befriended Varvara Nikolaevna Golovina in Russia in the late 1790s during the artist’s exile from revolutionary France. She described Golovina as a ‘charming woman’ who was a talented musician and artist, and a lover of literature.
Detail. Art Page 11. Countess Varvara Nicolaevna Golovina née Princess Golitsyna (b. 12 Feb. 1766, d. Paris 21 Sept. 1821, burried at Saint-Germain-des-Près cemetery in Paris) was the daughter of Prince Nicolai Fedorovich Golitsyn and his wife née Prascovia Ivanovna Shuvalova. She was a Maid of Honour to the Empress Catherine II in 1783, and ...
