Alexander Roslin

Posted Jun 24, 2007 at 20:37 CEST in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.

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Swedish portrait painter Alexander Roslin on Wikipedia, and on Swedish Wikipedia for slightly more information (in Swedish).

More paintings after the cut.

Edit: updated this post with more paintings and better quality pictures.

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1780.

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The artist Anne Vallayer-Coster, 1783.

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The Marquise de Becdelièvre, 1780.

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Archduchess Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma.

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Grand Duchess Natalia Alexeyevna, 1776-1776.

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Woman with a veil, 1768. Roslin’s most famous painting. The lady is Marie Suzanne Giroust, the painter’s wife. She’s dressed “a la boulognaise”.

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Gustav III of Sweden, 1777.

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Gustav III, 1775.

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Princess Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta, 1774. Later the queen of Sweden.

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Augustine Suzanne Roslin, 1781.

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Henriette Begouen, 1790.

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The Martineau family. (Picture nicked from http://nehelenia.de.)

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Unknown girl believed by some to be the princesse de Lamballe.

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Baroness de Neubourg-Cromière, 1756.

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Maria Feodorovna, 1777.