Lot 4: PETER ERNST ROCKSTUHL (RUSSIAN, 1764-1824)

PETER ERNST ROCKSTUHL (RUSSIAN, 1764-1824)
Princess Natalia Vladimirovna Saltykova (1737-1812), in white dotted Swiss muslin dress with fine white lace stand collar, russet Cashmere shawl, lace-frilled bonnet secured with ribbons, brown curling hair
signed and dated 'Rockstuhl fec: 1811' (mid-right)
on ivory
2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame with blue glass reverse on an engine-turned foil ground and containing a smaller glazed milk glass tondo painted with a pansy

Sotheby's, Geneva, 10 May 1988, lot 21.

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium
According to the 1988 sale catalogue, the sitter is believed to be the wife of Prince Nicolai Ivanovich Saltykov (1736-1816), Field Marshal, Minister of War, President of the Council of Ministers, Council of the Empire and the Senate, Governor of the Grand Dukes Alexander and Constantine Pavlovich of Russia.
For more information on Rockstuhl, see T. A. Selinova, Khudozhnik P. E. Rokshtul'. Iz istorii russkoi portretnoi miniatiury, Moscow, 2005.