<p>RUSSIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1770/1780 
Catherine II (1729-1796), Empress of Russia 1762-1796, in white silk dress and ermine cloak, drop pearl pendant at corsage, laurel wreath and small diamond crown in her upswept powdered long hair falling over her left shoulder, wearing the chain and breast star of the Russian Order of St. Andrew, and the sash and breast star of the Russian Order of St. George
oil on copper 
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feigned oval, 6¾ x 5 in. (170 x 127 mm.), gilt-bronze frame
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<td>Anonymous Russian painter <i>(1670s-1917)</i>
<p><small>Public domain image <i>(according to <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-RusEmpire" title="Template:PD-RusEmpire">PD-RusEmpire</a>)</i></small>
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circa 1770 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1770-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>/1780
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