Johann Baptist Lampi, studio of, Portrait of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

Johann Baptist Lampi, studio of

1751 Romeno - 1830 Vienna

Portrait of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

Oil on canvas (relined). 69 x 55 cm.

Signed and dated lower left: Lampi 1797.

** Provenance
Baron Dimitrij Alexandrowitsch von Benckendorff (with inventory label to verso) great-grandson of Maria Feodorovna's childhood friend Anna-Juliane von Benckendorff - née Schilling von Cannstatt - and son of the Russian ambassador to the courts of Württemberg and Weimar from 1820 - 1826, Constantin Constantinowitsch v. Benckendorff. - Lempertz auction 15.11.1995, lot 1303. - Collection of Prof. Dr. Gisela Zick.

** Exhibitions
Krieg und Frieden. Eine deutsche Zarin in Schloss Pawlowsk, Munich, Haus der Kunst 2001, cat. N. 257, p. 392/393, illus. p. 393