Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Pastier, d'après Louis Hersent. Portrait de la princesse Natalia Stepanovna Golitsyna (Galitzine), née Apraxina, vêtue d'une robe blanche et portant turban à la Turque, assise sur un un canapé à coussin violet de style Empire; la fenêtre ouvre sur une forêt de sapins enneigée. France, manufacture de porcelaine de Sèvres, 1826. Porcelaine peinte. 29.5 x 24 cm. Signé & daté en bas à droite. Jean-Baptiste Pastier (1794-1890) était en 1826 l'un des peintres de la Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres. Le portrait original de Louis Hersent (1777-1860) se trouve aujourd'hui au Musée des Beaux-arts Pouchkine, à Moscou. Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Pastier, originally by Louis Erson. Portrait of Princess Natalya Stepanovna Golitsyna. Paris, Sevres porcelain manufactory, 1826. Porcelain, the painting. 29.5 x 24 cm. Below right: signature and date. Princess N.S. Golitsyn, Apraksina Ur. (1794-1890), daughter of the Moscow governor-general S.S. Apraksin, the Empress' maid of honor, was interested in literature and kept a fashionable salon in St. Petersburg, which was visited by A.S. Pushkin, his uncle V.L. Pushkin, P.A. Vyazemsky, I.A. Krylov, Count V.A. Sollogub. In the 1820s, together with her husband Prince S.S. Golitsyn, she travelled across Europe, lived in Italy and France, where she was painted in 1824 by the French artist Louis Erson (1777-1860). From abroad, the spouses brought a large collection of Etruscan vases and paintings, which was later transferred to the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Artists.