Olga Alexandrovna (b. Peterhof near St. Petersburg 1882, d. Toronto 1960, Grand Duchess of Russia)
A Russian icon depicting Mary Magdalene with the alabaster jar. Signed on the reverse Olga (in Cyrillic) with the Grand Duchess' Cyrillic dedication to her mother, Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna: “To My Dear Mother, Hvidøre, Denmark, 22 June 1925”. Oil on panel. 23×20 cm.
22 June was the name day of Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna of Russia according to the Julian calendar.
Hvidøre Castle, north of Copenhagen, was acquired by Tsarita Maria Feodorovna and her sister, Queen Alexandra of England, in 1906. After the Russian revolution in 1917, Hvidøre Castle became the residence of Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna from 1919 and until her death in 1928. Her daughter, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, and her family lived here 1920–1928.
Provenance: Present from Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna to her mother, Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna. After her death given to the Russian priest of The Russian Church in Copenhagen. In his family until the 1980s, where the present Danish seller acquired it at Sagførernes Auctioneers in Copenhagen. This sale was the estate auction of the grandchild of the formerly Russian priest of The Russian Church in Copenhagen.
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Russian art, 7 June 2019