"Adolphe Yvon Moscow"
Full-length portrait of a Muscovite by Adolphe Yvon. Adolphe Yvon (1817-1893) was a student of Paul Delaroche and through his marriage, allied to Horace Vernet. He is one of the great painters specializing in battle scenes, covering numerous wars of the second part of the 19th century. He is one of the most recognized contemporary French painters in America and Russia, thanks to his numerous travels. In Russia, he was made a member of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1860. The drawing is framed in a mid-19th century pitch pine frame, signed, annotated Moscow and dated 1840 at the bottom and measures in the absence of frame 23.8x16.4 cm. 
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