PORTRAIT OF VASILII BORISOVICH SHEREMETEV
Creator(s): Cesare Laurentio (Artist)
Currently in storage
About this object
Engraving represents in an oval frame a bearded man in half length facing forward. He is wearing a peaked cap decorated with beading and a military type jacket with frog closures. He is holding a baton with his right hand. The frame has alternating leaf and flower designs in each corner.
- Object name:
- PORTRAIT OF VASILII BORISOVICH SHEREMETEV
- Made from:
- Paper
- Made in:
- ITALY
- Date made:
- 1670
- Size:
- 22.5 x 16.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 55.27
- Class:
- ENGRAVING
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTION Szaramet Generale de Moscouti Caption below portrait. In ornate Latin script. identification of artist Cesare Laurentio Fece Caption at lower left below portrait. Cesar Laurentio made this. inscription Vasily Borisovich" Sheremetev" rod. okolo 1622 g. skonch. v" 1690g. Stol'nik i voevoda v" Tobol'ske Iz" knigi: "Historia de Leopoldo Cesare ...1656-1670. Vienna 1670." Written on mat in Cyrillic and Latin, bottom front Script is an ornate Russian Cyrillic (except book title) using pre-revolutionary spelling standards. Trans: "Vasilii Borisovich Sheremetev, born c. 1622, died in 1690. Stol'nik and voevod in Tobol'sk. From the book: "Historia de Leopoldo Cesare ...1656-1670. Vienna 1670." date 1670. Written on mat, lower right.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973