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Lot Essay
Elizaveta Alekseevna, née Princess Louisa Maria Augusta of Baden, married the future Emperor Alexander I in 1793. It was not a happy union, but, despite her husband's affairs, they drew closer after the premature death of their daughters.
Copies by P. E. Rockstuhl are illustrated in G. N. Komelova/G. A. Printseva, Portrait Miniature in Russia, XVIII - early XX century from the Collection of The Hermitage, Leningrad, 1986, p. 295. no. 85, p. 166, pl. 149, and in T. A. Selinova, Khudozhnik P. E. Rokshtul'. Iz istorii russkoi portretnoi miniatiury, Moscow, 2005, p. 131, no. 60 (of 1817, at Arkhangelskoie).
Copies by P. E. Rockstuhl are illustrated in G. N. Komelova/G. A. Printseva, Portrait Miniature in Russia, XVIII - early XX century from the Collection of The Hermitage, Leningrad, 1986, p. 295. no. 85, p. 166, pl. 149, and in T. A. Selinova, Khudozhnik P. E. Rokshtul'. Iz istorii russkoi portretnoi miniatiury, Moscow, 2005, p. 131, no. 60 (of 1817, at Arkhangelskoie).