Lot 289: Portrait of Tsar Paul I

Stepan Semjonowitsch Schtschukin, Moskau 1754 - St. Petersburg 1828
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Portrait of Tsar Paul I
Oil/canvas, 61,5 x 50 cm, rest., relined. - Prov.: Old noble collection, Normandy. - The painting shows the tsar in the uniform of the Preobrashenki regiment, sporting the order of St. Anna, the order of St. Andrew as well as the Prussian Black Eagle order. - Mus.: Moscow (Tropinin Museum), Saint Petersburg (Russian Museum, Painting Gallery of the Russian Academy of Arts), Stuttgart (State Museum of Wuerttemberg) et al. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Benezit.