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Artist: Amigoni, Jacopo (5)

Period: 17th century (5013) | 18th century (4787)

Type: ink (2963) | watercolour (2151)

Style: Italian (1743)

Subjects: Anna, Empress of Russia, 1693-1740  (1)

Keywords
empresses (18) | portraits (1315) | royalty (203) | studies and drafts (1752) | women (1424)

Study for portrait of Czarina Anna of Russia

17th century & 18th century

Amigoni, Jacopo    more

Pen and ink (brown), watercolour (light red), bodycolour (white) on paper (blue)

height: 45 cm; width: 28.8 cm

Inscription
Inscription, drawing, signed, engraved, bottom, recto:
Anna Prima Russorum Imperatrix
Ex prototype in E Principis A. Cantemir I.M.S. Plenipot Ministri ad M. Brit-Regem
9. Amiconus Venetus Pinxit. Wagner Sculp. Londini.
Marked, graphite, lower right, recto, 27

Acquisition
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir); bequest; 1952
D.1952.RW.3905

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London