A LOUIS XVI GOBELINS TAPESTRY PANEL DEPICTING CATHERINE THE GREAT, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA (1729-1796) IN A CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN OVAL GILTWOOD FRAME

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Los 50 | A LOUIS XVI GOBELINS TAPESTRY PANEL DEPICTING CATHERINE THE GREAT, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA (1729-1796) IN A CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN OVAL GILTWOOD FRAME
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A LOUIS XVI GOBELINS TAPESTRY PANEL DEPICTING CATHERINE THE GREAT, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA (1729-1796) IN A CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN OVAL GILTWOOD FRAME

WOVEN BY THE WORKSHOP OF FRANÇOIS PIERRE COZETTE, GOBELINS MANUFACTORY, AFTER A PAINTING BY FEDOR ROKOTOV, CIRCA 1782, THE FRAME RUSSIAN, LATE 18TH CENTURY

The Empress depicted bust-length wearing a tiara and the chain of the Order of St. Andrew, surmounted with an Imperial crown resting on a tasselled cushion, the cartouche below carved with the Empress's monogram, flanked by oak and laurel garlands, within an egg-and-dart moulded frame

52 x 35 1/2 in. (132 x 90 cm.)





Provenance

Most probably commissioned by Catherine the Great.

The Collection of Dr. Alexandre Benchoufi; Sotheby's, New York, 9 November 2006, lot 61 ($251,200).



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