The artist is unknown
Elizaveta Alekseevna (nearer. Louise Maria Augustus, Princess of Baden; 1779–1826). The niece of the first wife of Paul I Grand Duchess Natalya Alekseevna. In October 1792 she arrived in St. Petersburg, in September 1793 she accepted Orthodoxy and married Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich. Since March 1801 – Russian Empress.
Dated by the shape of a hairstyle. Depicted with the tape of the Order of St. Andrew the First -Called, whose signs were assigned to her during the coronation in 1801. This portrait does not coincide with any of the iconographic types known today. Closer than others, it correlates with the miniature of work. AND. Penshona 1801 (led. Prince. Nikolai Mikhailovich. T. 2. No. 127). However, on a miniature portrait – a different hairstyle (curls on the back of the head are selected), a three -occasional turn of the shoulders and, in addition, there is no Order of St. Andrew the First -Called. The sizes of the portrait did not change – the edges of the canvas are not trimmed. Its composition (a poking image with a small fragment of the order tape) is unusual for the image of the empress, which gives the basis for the assumption that it is a carefully written out sketch of the not preserved or unrequited large portrait.
N. X. Unknown artist. SPb, 2012. With. 55.
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