Portrait of a Young Woman in a Sarafan. 1817. Oil
on canvas. 71.5 x 57.5. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Paul Barbier, a French painter, worked in Russia at the end of
the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. For a long time historians
of art took him for another French artist, Nicola Alexander Barbier. The
life and the work of Paul Barbier are still waiting for a researcher.