This portrait watercolour was executed around 1800-1810 by an Monogrammist  from the circle of Johann Baptist Lampi senior (1751-1830) and depicts Elena Alexandrovna Naryshkina (1785-1855), later in the first marriage - Princess Suvorova ( married in 1800 with Arkady, the son of Generalissimo Suvorov and in the second marriage with Wasilij Golitzin) . 

Our watercolour based on the famous oil portrait by John Baptist Lampi Sr., painted in 1800 , shortly before her first  wedding (s. last image).

Provenance : Austrian private estate.

Inscription: monogrammed V. M. f.(fecit) in the middle right, on the back of the wooden cover is the old label in Hungarian of the Fine Art Museum in Budapest .

Technique: watercolour on paper, original period glass and gilt "ochesnaugen" frame.

Measurements: unframed 5 1/2" x 7 1/4" (14 x 18,5 cm), framed 10 1/4" x 12" (26 x 30,5 cm).

Condition: overall quite good, upper from oval image - few paper peeling.