Unknown painter. Portrait of Peter I

Unknown painter

Portrait of Peter I

18th century

oil on canvas. 94 x 70 (oval)
Received in 1941 from the State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR; earlier – collection of count Chernyshev
State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Period 18th century
Virtual exhibitions and 3d-tours
- Peter I and his Era
- Peter the Great: His Era and His Inner Circle.
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The iconographical type of the painting originates from Adriaan Schoonebeek’s engraving, which is a full-length picture of Peter wearing a kaftan and a cuirass, with a mantle lined with ermine and a hat with curved brims decorated with feathers, and a wig with long curls coming down to his shoulders. The painting is a shoulder-length variant of the engraving, and is fairly similar to it in the details of the clothes, the body’s position and the way the artist depicted the face of the young tsar.

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