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RUSSIAN SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY)

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RUSSIAN SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY)

TSAR ALEXANDR I AND HIS WIFE, EMPRESS ELIZAVETA ALEKSEEVNA

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20½ X 25½IN. (52 X 67.2CM.)

拍品專文

THE ABOVE COMPOSITION ENTITLED 'ALEXANDER I LIBERATING EUROPE AND FRANCE', SHOWING THE RUSSIAN EMPEROR OFFERING AN OLIVE BRANCH TO HIS WIFE ELIZAVETA ALEKSEEVNA, SYMBOLISING EUROPE WITH A RUSSIAN DOUBLE-HEADED EAGLE ABOVE HOLDING A WREATH IN EACH BEAK SYMBOLISING PEACE AND VICTORY, BECAME POPULAR AFTER THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AND HAS OFTEN BEEN REPRODUCED, IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT MEDIA, SUCH AS NIELLO AND PRINTS.