Portrait of Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna, later Queen of Württemberg
Medium
watercolor on ivory on a gilt metal mount
Dimensions
unframed: 5.7 × 4.6 cm · framed: 6 × 5 cm
Classification
Portrait Miniature
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Accession Number
2008.296
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About this artwork
The miniature of Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna, later Queen of Württemberg, is among the finest of Alois Gustav Rockstuhl's portraits. It portrays Catherine at around 4 years of age and is one of the few miniatures of children in the museum's collection. This work was painted several decades after Catherine's death and is based on a large-scale, late 18th-century oil painting by Petr Zharkov. A member of Catherine's family likely commissioned the portrait from Rockstuhl as a memento. Zharkov ...