Vintage 7 x 9 photo affixed to a slightly larger card, and in turn affixed to a 9.25 x 11 mount, signed on the mount in black ink, “Franklin D. Roosevelt 1927.” Penned at the bottom, in an unknown hand is “from the portrait by Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy.” The original portrait was painted in 1927 by Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy, son of a Russian diplomat and husband of American author Amélie Rives. He also painted a portrait of FDR’s mother. His brother, sculptor Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, had created a life-size statue of a half-seated FDR in 1911. Some creasing to lower left corner, and some mild damp staining to top left, otherwise fine condition. Auction LOA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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