Aivazovsky: Portrait of the Artist’s Grandmother Ashkhen

Hovhannes Aivazovsky (1817–1900). “Portrait of the Artist’s Grandmother Ashkhen”, 1858. Oil on canvas, 92×73 cm. Held in the Aivazovsky Picture Gallery in Feodosia.

The oval canvas shows an elderly woman in a dark headscarf and a lace collar, with a dark shawl over her shoulders and her hands laid one over the other.