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The Portrait of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna

Creation period
the 1740-1760s
Dimensions
145,3x111,3 cm
Technique
Canvas, oil
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The Portrait of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna
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The portrait of Elizaveta Petrovna was created by an unknown artist around the 1740-1760s. Researchers believe that he copied this picture from another portrait of the Empress by Jacopo Amigoni. The latter did not either have the opportunity to paint Elizaveta Petrovna from life - he used the famous image created by Louis Caravacque. 

In those days, many portraitists depicted monarchs, copying other artists’ paintings. Members of the imperial family did not often sit for painters, but they would issue a decree approving the image that could be considered the reference one. The portrait by Louis Caravacque he painted in the early 1740s, became such approved type of image. He created it in the early 1740s, and Elizabeth issued a decree, in 1747 to the effect that the portrait should be considered the reference one.
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The unknown artist’s painting is elegant and solemn. Elizaveta Petrovna is dressed in richly decorated attire. She sits opposite a round mirror, with a part of its frame visible on the left. The image of the Empress is both majestic and coquettish. The master depicted all the appropriate attributes of the royalty: she has the ribbon of the Order of St. Andrew running over her shoulder and the crown adorning her image. At the same time, Elizaveta Petrovna looks like a dreamy woman with her gaze glued to her reflection in the mirror. Flowers blossom around her right out of the air.
Such theatricality was characteristic of the Baroque style which particularly flourished during the reign of Elizaveta Petrovna. At that time, new tastes came to be embraced by the court - the cult of delicacies, wine and elegance. Women’s dresses were embroidered with frills, ribbons and bows with 5 to 40 meters of fabric used for a single skirt. Even the names of shades sounded fancifully: “the color of newcomers”, “the color of cast-down eyes”. Such striving for excessive luxury matched the Italian word “barocco” which meant “fanciful, prone to excesses”.
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The unknown artist was inspired by the work of Jacopo Amigoni, and the latter worked in the baroque style. The reality and ornateness, ceremonial representativeness and low-key ambience are intertwined in his work. No information is available as to whether Jacopo Amigoni had seen the original portrait by Caravacque, or painted Elizaveta Petrovna from the engraving. Unfortunately, the whereabouts of the original painting by Jacopo Amigoni are unknown.
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The Portrait of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna

Creation period
the 1740-1760s
Dimensions
145,3x111,3 cm
Technique
Canvas, oil
8
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