A bronze Bust of Empress Catherine II the Great
after Fedot Ivanovich Shubin
Bust length, wearing a berried laurel crown, on a circular stand, with a stepped hexagonal malachite base, apparently unmarked
18in. (45.5cm.) high
Lot Essay
For another similar bronze see The Russian Musuem, Leningrad, Sculpture 18th to early 20th century: Catalogue, (Leningrad, 1988), no.1461 illustrated.