title: Portraits of Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse: Return after Neglect
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metadata.value: Bardovskaya, Larisa V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-02T15:05:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-02T15:05:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Bardovskaya, Larisa. “Portraits of Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse: Return after Neglect”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 11, no. 2 (2021): 172–185.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2021.201
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33402
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is dedicated to the attribution of two portraits of an unknown German general
  in the Tsarskoye Selo Museum collection. One of them is a ceremonial knee-high portrait,
  the other is a small head portrait of the same general. In addition, one portrait was
  purchased in 1997 at the “Lenfilm” stage properties, the other has always been in the museum.
  It was believed that the head portrait, by an unknown artist, depicted Grand Duke Ludwig of
  Hesse-Darmstadt — father of future Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. The weak
  inscription at the bottom of the knee-high portrait states that it is a copy done by Heinrich
  R. Kröh in 1896 in Darmstadt, based on Heinrich von Angeli`s original. On the backs of
  both canvases, monograms from the personal collection of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
  were found: the interwoven Russian letters “A” and “F” under a crown and “№ 8” (ceremonial
  knee-high portrait) and “№ 65” (head portrait). Both images date back to the famous
  “Family portrait of Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse”, commissioned by Queen Victoria for the
  Drawing-room of her Osborne-House in London. In the queen’s letters, it is noted that Angeli
  had started to work on the head sketches immediately upon his arrival in 1878. Alexandra
  Feodorovna brought one of them, her father’s head sketch, with her to Russia. Also, in the year
  of 1878 Angeli painted the knee-high ceremonial portrait with the same regalia for Grand
  Duke Ludwig’s residence in Darmstadt. The portrait is known in copies executed by Ludwig
  Hofmann-Zeitz (Royal Collections, London) and Heinrich Kröh (now in Tsarskoye Selo
  Museum). The fate of Kröh’s replica happened to be tragic. First it was seen in a photograph
  of the Empress’s study in the Winter Palace of the 1900s made by St. Petersburg photographer
  Karl Kubesh. The photo shows companion portraits of the Empress’s parents. Both portraits
  disappeared after the 1917 Revolution. The knee-high portrait of Ludwig was badly damaged
  and as a result was included into the stage props of the studio as it was deemed unnecessary.
  After many decades, the portrait was returned to the Tsarskoye Selo Museum collection.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 11; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: painting sketch
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ceremonial portrait
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Heinrich von Angeli
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Alexander Palace
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Darmstadt
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Queen Victoria
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Empress
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Osborne-House
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Heinrich Kröh
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Portraits of Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse: Return after Neglect
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