Portrait of catherine the great. In this oil painting by dmitrii grigorievich levitskii, catherine ii directs her royal scepter toward the imperial crown, orb, and a bust of peter the great. Celebrated artists and anonymous painters alike created multiple copies of such stock portraits, and they were hung in official departments, residences of provincial governors, as well as educational and social institutions of which the empress served as the patron. In this case, the portrait, which is nearly nine feet (three meters) tall, was presented in 1788 as a reward to a british financial adviser of the empress. Date: 1780s.
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