Lot 210: AUGUSTIN-CHRISTIAN RITT (RUSSIAN, 1765-1799)

AUGUSTIN-CHRISTIAN RITT (RUSSIAN, 1765-1799)
Anna Feodorovna (1781-1860), Grand Duchess Constantine of Russia, née Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield, in white dress with blue jacket and white underdress, red shawl, small gold hoop earring and triple gold chain necklace, wearing a red, blue and white bandeau in her long flowing curling brown hair adorned with a white ostrich feather; arranging pale pink roses in an urn, foliate background
signed 'Ritt' (lower left)
on ivory
4 1/16 in. (103 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame with easel stand

G. N. Komelova, Augustin Ritt: Russian Miniaturist 1765-1799. Life and Art, St Petersburg, 2004, illustrated p. 155, no. 82 of the catalogue raisonné and listed in the artist's fee book for 1798.

Christie's, Geneva, 28 April 1976, lot 107.
Robert D. Brewster (1916-1995) Collection, New York; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1995, lot 67.