Nikitin I.N. Portrait of Elisabeth of Russia as a Child

Nikitin I.N.

1680s, Moscow (?) - After 1741

Portrait of Elisabeth of Russia as a Child

Circa 1712–1713

oil on canvas. 54 х 43
Received in 1941 from the State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR (collection of the History and Everyday Life Department of the State Russian Museum) Provenance: Department for the Protection of Monuments of Art and Antiquity; collection of the Gorchakovs
State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Period 18th century
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Acquired as “Portrait of a Girl” painted by an unknown artist of the 18^th century, the portrait has been attributed to Ivan Nikitin based on stylistic analysis and technological examination, with the subject as Elisabeth of Russia. The dating is conventional; it is based on the age of the person depicted. The portrait is one of the earliest well-known works of Nikitin completed before he went to Italy to study in 1716–1720s.

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