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Anastasia and Maria, 1908.
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Anastasia and Maria, 1908.
Miniature portraits of Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna alongside the hospital where they visited injured soldiers during WWI by artist Vasili Zuev, set in a pink enamel Faberge frame
The caption alongside translates as: ‘‘In this frame of pink enamel, on a surface guilloched by the sun's rays, there are two miniatures by the artist Vasily Zuev: Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia and the [Feodorovsky Hospital] House of Mercy, in which they helped the suffering.”
Zuev painted multiple miniatures of the Imperial Family, often set into Faberge jewellery or items. This miniature of the Grand Duchesses from this piece has sometimes been attributed to being from a Faberge Egg or lost.
A few months ago, after a little searching, I at last found the full piece!
Sources:
📍 John Booth, The Art of Faberge, (London: Grand Books, 1996), p. 127
📍 DEA / L. DOUGLAS/De Agostini via Getty Images, French gold and Faberge' enamel picture frames for miniatures UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1900: Goldsmith's art, France, 19th-20th century. Gold and Faberge' enamel picture frames for miniatures, [online]
2012 / 2024
OTMA 1906
Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna with Grand Duchesses Maria Nikolaevna & Anastasia Nikolaevna, AKA Little Pair, in Livadia. August/September 1913.
✨STUNNING✨ cropped photo of Grand Duchess Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna aka “The Little Pair” posing with officers, early 1915
Photo hand-tinted by Maria herself!
Photo 1 : Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna playing on Giant Steps in Krasnoye Selo, 30th July - 6th August 1907.
Photo 2-3 : Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna playing on Giant Steps in Krasnoye Selo, 30th July - 6th August 1907.
Photos from: Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna's 1904-1907 Album / page 17b, photos 223, 224, 225
Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia of Russia, ca. 1915.
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