Portrait of Empress Catherine II - circle of Fedot I. SHUBIN (1740-1805),

FEDOT IVANOVITCH SHUBIN (1740-1805), CIRCLE OF.
CATHERINE II, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.
Drawing in black pencil, stump and gray wash.
Representing the left profile of the Empress Catherine The Great, laureate in trompe l'oeil imitating an oval marble bas-relief in neoclassical style.
Last third of the 18th century.
In an old wooden and gilded stucco oval frame.
Slight tears and restorations.
H. 74 x L. 60 cm.
Frame: H. 90 x L. 78 cm.

Provenance
Collection Maurice Druon (1918-2009), author et former French minister of Cultural Affairs.

Related works
- Fedot Shubin, Catherine II in profile left, 1792-1794, pencil drawing signed and dated, kept at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (ill. 3).
- Fedot Shubin, Bust of an Unknown Woman in Left Profile, 1770, marble bas-relief, kept at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (ill. 4).
- Fedot Shubin, Bust of Catherine II Laureate, 1771, marble sculpture, kept at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (inv. A.32-1964, ill. 5).
- Fedot Shubin, Bust of Laureate Catherine II, c. 1783, marble sculpture, kept at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (ill. 6).
- Fedot Shubin, Profile of Laureate Catherine II, 1783, marble bas-relief, kept at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (ill. 7).
- Fedot Shubin, Bust of Laureate Catherine II, 1791, marble sculpture, kept at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (ill. 8).
- Fedot Shubin, Cameo on amber with the left profile of Catherine II, 1763, kept at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (inv. XII-161, ill. 9).