(11 with the latter’s biography). Schidlof says further, «his works of this period were usually mounted on the boxes of Drais & Gaillard (sic!)., and he obtained 15 Louis for the original and 10 Louis for each replica».
As said above, Gudovskyi died in Kiev in 1860. He executed this portrait of an as yet anonymous young blonde woman in Kiev, where he lived from 1849 until his death in 1860. Ivan Vasilievich Gudovskyi was born in the small Ukranian town of Pyriatyn in Poltava Oblast as a son of a cossack.
Schidlof writes: «. Portrait of a gentleman from the period of the French Revolution. Technique: watercolor on organic wafer. Style: Portrait Miniatures. MALE PORTRAIT. maximum EUR 500. Creation Year: ca 1795.
Marie-Thérèse Bourgoin was born in 1785. Already in 1799 she was enlisted to the theater group of the best French theater – the Parisian «Théatre-Français». In a few years, the First Consul took notice of her.
Creation Year: ca 1850. Technique: watercolor painting. Creator: Continental School. FEMALE PORTRAIT.