MAKE A MEME View Large Image Catherine II in gray, wrigting by anonymous (18 c., priv.coll) 2.jpg Russian School second half of the 18th Century Empress Catherine the Great of Russia 1729 “1796 oil on canvas 50 x 39 cm framed Provenance Private collection France This ...
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Keywords: Catherine II in gray, wrigting by anonymous (18 c., priv.coll) 2.jpg Russian School second half of the 18th Century Empress Catherine the Great of Russia 1729 “1796 oil on canvas 50 x 39 cm framed Provenance Private collection France This intimate portrait of the Empress which already breathes the spirit of a bourgeois age is not related to any known likeness of the Tsarina Although she is dressed here in civic attire the three medals betray the traditional iconography reserved for rulers The portrait reflects the Empress ™s commitment to the ideas of the Enlightenment and is far removed from the official court portraits of the Late Baroque age In 1745 Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst born in 1729 became Great Duchess Catherine of Russia In 1761 her husband was proclaimed Emperor Tsar Peter III who pursued a pro-Prussian policy In 1762 the unpopular Tsar was disempowered through a coup d ™Ã©tat and his wife succeeded him to the throne as Catherine II She governed Russia as an autocratic ruler until her death in 1796 She felt drawn to the ideas of the Enlightenment but in everyday politics turned out to be an authoritarian and absolutist sovereign expanding Russia ™s power like no Russian ruler had done before her She also opened Russia to European art and culture Helmut Börsch-Supan suggests an attribution for the present painting to the court painter Joseph Wolfgang Hauwiller of Baden from 1764 active in Rastatt and compares our painting to Hauwiller ™s portrait of Margravine Caroline Luisa of Baden https //www dorotheum com/en/auction-detail/auction-10841-old-master-paintings/lot-1773487-russian-school-second-half-of-the-18th-century html source search 46 18 c RusPainter Portraits of Catherine II of Russia Files uploaded by Shakko from various sources Private collections of Russian art PD-old
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