51. The Great Treasurer Woman Smaranda Sturdza-Bal? [1800-1805]
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51. The Great Treasurer Woman Smaranda Sturdza-Bal? [1800-1805]
oil on canvas, 85.5 x 69.5 cm, 85,5 × 69,5 cm
Research information
Opera este reprodusa în "Règne De Michel Sturdza, Prince Régnant De Moldavie, 1834-1849", Alexandru A.C. Sturdza, Paris, 1907, la plan?a 32 cu descrierea: "Smaranda Sturdza de Ruginoasa. epouse de grand vestiar Alexandre Bals de Dumbraveni". Opera este reprodusa în studiul "Testamentul ?i inventarul averii Smarandei Bal?" de Dan Dumitru Iacob publicat în "Avere, prestigiu ?i cultura materiala în surse patrimoniale", Colec?ia Historica, Ia?i, 2015, la pag. 463, fig. 1. Opera este reprodusa în "Familii boiere?ti din Moldova ?i ?ara Româneasca. Enciclopedie istorica, genealogica ?i biografica", coord. Mihai Dim. Sturdza, Tom I, la pag. 279.
PROVENANCE
up untill 1848, collection of Smaranda Bal?; up untill 1907, collection of Ghika Family, stored in the Dumbraveni mansion; enters the Ghika Collection due to the marriage of Ecaterina Bal? (Smaranda's grand daughter) wih Leon Gheoca (Ghika-Dumbraveni)
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