The artist is unknown
By analogy with the later portrait of Catherine II in the road suit, Mikhail Shibanov can be assumed that this portrait was made during the trip. Judging by the age of the depicted empress, probably in 1767, when she and his retinue on the squadron of passenger and transport ships from Tver to Simbirsk went along the Volga. The Volzhsky Voyage lasted from May 2 (13) to June 5 (16), 1767 and included visiting coastal cities, monasteries and attentive places.
The portrait was attributed to Dmitry Levitsky Sergey Diagilev. Nikolai Wrangel suggested the possible belonging of his brush Vigiliuliusaeriksen. Similar portraits-the museum-estate “Arkhangelskoye”; another attributed to Johann Baptist Lampe the eldest was in the meeting with. M. Petrovo-Solovovo (St. Petersburg).
Catherine the Great in the country and the world. SPb, 2017. With. 45.
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