Portrait of Catherine I (1684-1727)

Details

After Jean-Marc Nattier (Russian School, 18th century)
Portrait of Catherine I (1684-1727)
with signature and date 'Nattier fecit/1718' (centre left)
oil on canvas
57 ¼ x 44 in. (145.5 x 111.8 cm.)

Provenance

By repute, a gift from Peter the Great to the ambassador Louis-François-Marie de Verton (1636-1727), secretary in the cabinet du roi, and special envoy of his Majesty to Peter the Great.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

Probably, Le soleil, 6 October 1896, p. 2.

Exhibited

Probably, Paris, The Louvre, October 1896.

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Lot Essay

The original oil on canvas is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, inv. ЭРЖ-1857. According to D. Rovinsky, a copy was painted after the original, see D. Rovinsky, Concise Dictionary of Russian Graphic Portraits, St Petersburg, 1886, pp. 748-755.
We would like to thank Ólafur Þorvaldsson for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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