"Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia" (1759-1828)
Relined canvas 69.5 x 57 cm.
Bukowskis Auctionhouse, International Spring Auction 26-28 May 1999, auction no: 512, catalogue no 391.
Compare painting sold at Bukowskis Auctionhouse, International Autumn Auction 3-6 December 2002, auction no 526, catalogue no 406.
Magnus Olausson (ed.), "Alexander Roslin", exhibition catalog, Stockholm 2007. Compare catalogue no 88 at p. 255 which shows Roslin's full-length portrait of the Grand Duchess painted 1776 (at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg).
Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna, later became empress of Russia.
This is a copy of the portrait by Alexander Roslin's full-length portrait of the Empress from 1776 in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.