Hau Maria Alexandrovna
Vladimir Ivanovich Hau (1816-1895) Portrait of the Empress Maria Alexandrovna (1824-1880), Consort of Alexander II, with the Heir Tsesarevich and Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich (1843-1865) who wears a Russian shirt signed, watercolour and white over pencil 32 by 24cm Provenance: By descent from the sitter to her daughter H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg; H.H. Prince Georgii Maximilianovich, Prince Romanovsky, Duke of Luchtenberg (Collector’s label on the reverse, with the number 107) Michel Brodsky, Paris Private Collection, London Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich, much esteemed as a sensitive and intelligent youth, died of consumption in Nice on the 12 April 1865. His fiancée, Princess Dagmar of Denmark, then married his younger brother Alexander |
