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Portrait of Prince Andrey Vyazemsky
Jean Louis Voille
1774
Prince Andrey Vyazemsky (1750-1807), senator, Full Privy Counsellor, holder of the Orders of Alexander Nevsky and St. Anna First Class. Prince Andrey Vyazemsky, son of the famous Russian poet Pyotr Vyazemsky, is depicted in the green uniform of an infantry officer with a silver epaulet on his left shoulder and the insignia of an officer on the breast. The portrait was the work of the French artist Jean Louis Voille, a lyrical and subtle portraitist, who worked in Russia for many years and painted portraits of the members of Emperor Paul I's family and of numerous Russian noblemen.
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