Portrait of Peter I Against a Background of a Seafight

Nikitin I.N.

1680s, Moscow (?) - After 1741

Portrait of Peter I Against a Background of a Seafight

1715 (?)

oil on canvas. 142,5 х 107
Received in the late 19th century from the Imperial Hermitage (Romanov Gallery)
Государственный музей-заповедник "Царское Село"

Period Late 17th century – the 18th century
Virtual exhibitions and 3d-tours
- Peter the Great: His Era and His Inner Circle.
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Originally the painting’s size was 100.5 x 107 cm. When housed in the Romanov Gallery of the Winter Palace, the painting was thought to have been painted by Jan Kupecký in 1711. One of the variants of Peter’s travel journal contains an entry dated April 30, 1715, which reads: “Ivan Nikitin painted a half-length portrait of His Majesty.” Researchers believe that it was the “Portrait of Peter I Against a Background of a Seafight,” for which Nikitin received one hundred rubles in January 1715.

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