Portraits of Catherine II of Russia

Русский: Галерея портретов императрицы Екатерины II Великой

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Princess

Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg by Anna Rosina de Gasc (Lisiewska), 1742, Russian museum
Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg (or Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna) by Antoine Pesne (1745, Coburg)
Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg (or Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna) by anonymous (?) after Antoine Pesne. Date unknown, Castle Reinharz

Grand Duchess

Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by Louis Caravaque (1745, Gatchina museum)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by V.Eriksen (Vologda)
By Rotari, location unknown, c. 1760
Profile portrait of Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by Vigilius Eriksen (1762, Hermitage)

Rotari type

Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by Pietro Antonio Rotari (1761 (?), Tretyakov gallery)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by anonymous after Rotari (Russian museum)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by A.P. Antropov after Rotari (1750s, Saratov museum)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna, engraving by E.Vinogradov
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by Ivan Argunov after engraving of E.Vinogradov of Rotari's painting (1762, Kuskovo museum)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by anonymous after Rotari (18th c., Moscow State Historical Museum)

Grooth type

Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by G.C.Grooth (1740s (?) Russian museum)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by Antropov after Grooth (1755, Russian museum)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by Georg Christoph Grooth (1745, Hermitage)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by Georg Christoph Grooth (seems to be from Tretyakov gallery)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna, engraving by Stenglin
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by anonymous (c. 1758, Sergiev Posad museum)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna after Grooth (18th c, Pavlovsk)

Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by G.C.Grooth (1745-1749 (?), Russian museum)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by Georg Christoph Grooth (1740s, Russian museum)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by anonymous (1748, Moscow State Historical Museum)
Miniature (c. 1755, private collections)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna after Grooth (18th c, Ulyanovsk)

Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by G.C.Grooth in hunting costume (Nizhniy Novgorod museum)
Equestrian portrait of Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by G.C.Grooth (c. 1744, Russian museum)
Equestrian portrait of Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by Kirill Golovachevskiy after Grooth (1758, Estonian museum)

With husband

Grand Dukes Peter Fedorovich and Catherine Alexeevna by Georg Christoph Grooth (c.1745, Russian museum)
Grand Dukes Peter Fedorovich and Catherine Alexeevna by Georg Christoph Grooth (c.1745, Odessa museum)
Grand Dukes Peter Fedorovich and Catherine Alexeevna with page boy by Anna Rosina de Gasc (1756, Nationalmuseum Stockholm)

In mourning

Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna in mourning by V.Eriksen (1762, Tretyakov gallery)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna in mourning by V.Eriksen (?) (1762, Russian museum)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna in mourning by V.Eriksen (?) (c.1762, priv.coll)
Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna in mourning by E.Chemesov (1762, GTG)

Empress

Taking power

Catherine II of Russia in Life Guard Uniform on the Horse Brillante by Vigilius Eriksen (1762, Peterhof Palace)
Catherine II of Russia in Life Guard Uniform on the Horse Brillante by Vigilius Eriksen (1771, Statens Museum for Kunst, Kopenhagen)
Catherine II of Russia in Life Guard Uniform on the Horse Brillante by Vigilius Eriksen (1760s, Russian museum)
Catherine II of Russia in Life Guard Uniform by V.Eriksen (1771, Russian museum)
Equestrian portrait of Catherine II by J.Stenglin (Hermitage)

Coronation portrait

Coronation portrait of Catherine II by Stefano Torelli (1763-6, Russian museum) - using Rotari type of face
Catherine II by Stefano Torelli. Location unknown (or detail of previous?)
Catherine II after Torelli (Hillwood museum, 18th c.)
Catherine II by Alexey Antropov (Russian museum, 1766)
Catherine II by Alexey Antropov (before 1766, Hermitage)

Coronation portrait of Catherine II by Vigilius Eriksen (c.1765, Royal collection of the United Kingdom)
Coronation portrait of Catherine II by Vigilius Eriksen (1766-7, Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark)
Coronation portrait of Catherine II by Vigilius Eriksen (1778-9, David Collection, Denmark)
Coronation portrait of Catherine II by Stefano Torelli (1760s, Saratov museum)
Coronation portrait of Catherine II by Ivan Argunov (1760s, National Museum in Warsaw)
Catherine II by Borovikovskiy after Eriksen (1779, Krasnodar)

Antropov

Catherine II by Alexey Antropov (1762, Tretyakov gallery)
Catherine II by Alexey Antropov (18th c, Tretyakov gallery)
Catherine II by Alexey Antropov (18th c, Tver gallery)
Catherine II by Alexey Antropov (1766, Volgograd)

Main types

Buchholz / Eriksen

Catherine II by H.Buchholz (1772, Russian museum)
Catherine II by H.Buchholz (1770, Tsaritsyno)
Engraver A.Radig
Catherine II by V.Eriksen (1782, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Catherine II by Ivan Sablukov (1770s, Nizhny Novgorod)
By anonymous (private collection)
Catherine II in front of a mirror by Vigilius Eriksen (1762-4, Hermitage)
Catherine II in front of a mirror by V.Ericksen (1779, Russian museum)
Catherine II by V.Eriksen (c. 1780, priv.coll)
Catherine II by Heinrich Buchholz (1765, Russian museum)
Catherine II by Levitsky (1782, Russian museum) - without mirror but after Eriksen pose
Catherine II by Ivan Argunov (1762, Russian museum)
By anonymous (early 19th century, private collection)

Levitsky

Catherine II the Legislatress in the Temple Devoted to the Goddess of Justice by Dmitriy Levitskiy (1783, Russian museum)
Catherine II the Legislatress by D.Levitskiy (1783, Novosibirsk musem)
Catherine II the Legislatress in the Temple Devoted to the Goddess of Justice by Dmitriy Levitskiy (1780s, Tretyakov gallery)
Catherine II by D.Levitskiy (1780, Penza)
Catherine II by D.Levitskiy (1794, Novgorod museum)
Catherine II by D.Levitskiy (1787, Ulyanovsk museum)

Lampi

Catherine II by J.B.Lampi (1793, Hermitage)
Catherine II of Russia by J.B.Lampi (1790, Arkhangelsk)
Catherine II by James Walker after Lampi
Catherine II with allegorical figures of Saturn and History by J.B.Lampi (before 1793, Russian museum). Sketch for Hermitage painting
Catherine II with allegorical figures of Saturn and History by J.B.Lampi (1792-3, Chateau Vizille)
Catherine II with allegorical figures of Saturn and History by Fedor Bognevskiy after Lampi (1796, Russian museum)
Catherine II with allegorical figures of Saturn and History by Anisim Belousov after Lampi (1796, Russian museum)
Catherine II by J.B.Lampi (Omsk)
Catherine II by J.B.Lampi (National Museum of Art of Romania)
Catherine II by J.B.Lampi (Deutsches Historisches Museum)
Catherine II of Russia by J.B.Lampi (c.1791, Palace on the Water)
Attributed to J.B.Lampi (private collection)
Catherine II of Russia by J.B.Lampi (1790, Pskov)
Catherine II by J.B.Lampi (1793-4, Russian museum)
Head of Catherine II by J.B.Lampi (1793-4, Russian museum)
Catherine II of Russia after Lampi (c. 1780, Hillwood museum)
Miniature
Miniature by La Broue
Engraving

Catherine II by J.B.Lampi (1794, Hermitage)

Roslin-Rokotov type

Catherine II by Alexander Roslin (1776-7, Hermitage)
Catherine II by Alexander Roslin (1776, Nationalmuseum Stockholm)
Catherine II by anonymous after Roslin (Tver)
Catherine II by anonymous after Roslin (18 c., Hermitage)
Catherine II by Carl Ludwig Christineck after Roslin (1780s, Moscow State Historical museum)
Catherine II of Russia after Roslin (c. 1790, Hillwood museum)
Catherine II (Schloss Eutin)
Catherine II by Roslin (Ryazan museum)
Catherine II by A.Roslin (Vinnytsia)
Chateau des Princes de Ligne

(Rokotov: with younger face)

Catherine II by F.Rokotov after Roslin (c.1770, Hermitage)
Catherine II by F.Rokotov after Roslin (1780s, Hermitage)
Catherine II by F.Rokotov after Roslin (c. 1780, Hermitage) - same file?
Catherine II by Rokotov (1775-1780. GIM)
Anonimous, private collection
Catherine II by A.Albertrandi after Rokotov (1780s, Warsaw Royal Castle)
Catherine II by Levitskiy after Roslin (1780s, Hillwood museum)
Catherine II by J.B.Lampi (1780s, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
Catherine II by F.Rokotov (1786, Moscow State Historical museum)
Catherine II by Rokotov (after 1769, Kuskovo)
Catherine II by Rokotov (1770s, ИРЛИ (Пушкинский Дом) РАН)
Private collection
Catherine II by F.Rokotov (1799, Russian museum)
Catherine II by anonymous (location unknown)
Catherine II by anonymous (after 1779, Hermitage)
By anonymous (18th c., priv.coll.)
By anonymous (18th c., priv.coll.)

Levitsky (in red dress)

Catherine II by D.Levitskiy (1782, Tretyakov gallery)
Catherine II by anonymous after Levitskiy (18th c., Tsaritsino museum)
Catherine II by anonymous (18th century, Russian museum)
Catherine II by P.E.Falconet (1773, Hillwood Museum)
By anonymous (c.1787, priv. coll.)
Catherine II in gray, wrigting by anonymous (18 c., priv.coll.)

Miscellaneous

Profile portraits

Rokotov type

Profile portrait of Catherine II by Fedor Rokotov (1763, Tretyakov gallery)
Profile portrait of Catherine II by Fedor Rokotov (1763, Tretyakov gallery) - sketch
Catherine II by Rokotov (after 1763, Tropinin museum)
Catherine II by Alexey Antropov (1766, Novgorod museum)
Author unknown, location unknown
Lomonosov's mosaic (1762, Russian museum)
By A.I.Chernuy (1765, Hermitage)

Rotari type

Profile portrait of Catherine II by anonymous after Rotari (18 c,, Versailles)
Profile portrait of Catherine II by Vigilius Eriksen (1760s, Russian museum)
Profile portrait of Catherine II by Borovikovskiy (Georgia museum)
Engraved profile portrait of Catherine II by Evgraf Chemesov after Rotari (1762)
Variation

Other

Profile portrait of Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeevna by Vigilius Eriksen (1762, Hermitage)
Profile portrait of Catherine II by anonymous (18th century, Russian museum)
Profile portrait of Catherine II
Catherine II as Minerva by C.Richard (1789, Tretyakov gallery)
Catherine II as Minerva after her daughter-in-law Maria Fedorovna's print (c.1789)
Catherine II by Young (after Shubin)
Catherine II by anonymous (c.1770, priv. coll.)

Various painters

1780-1790s

Catherine II by Richard Brompton (1782, Hermitage)
Catherine II by Petr Drozhdin (1796, Tretyakov gallery)

In Russian dress

Catherine II in Russian dress by anonymous after Stefano Torelli (18th century, Moscow State Historical museum)
Catherine II in Russian dress by Vigilius Erichsen (1770-1772, Hermitage)
Catherine II in Russian dress after Vigilius Erichsen (18th century, Podstanitsky's collection)
Catherine II in Russian dress after Vigilius Erichsen (private collection)

In road dress

Catherine II in russian dress by M.Shibanov (1787, Gatchina museum)
Catherine II in russian dress by M.Shibanov (c.1774-80, Royal collection of the United Kingdom)
Catherine II in russian dress by Petr Drozhdin (after Mikhail Shibanov's original) ? (1787, Tver gallery)
Catherine II of Russia after Shibanov (after 1787, Hillwood museum)
Catherine II in road dress by Petr Drozdin (1797, priv.coll)
By anonymous (Pskov museum)
Engraving (1789)

By Petr Zharkov after Shibanov (1791, Russian museum)
Catherine II by Petr Zharkov (1788, Russian museum)
Portrait miniature by Petr Zharkov (1791, SEPHEROT Foundation collection)
Catherine II in road dress by L.Kugler (18 c. Kremlin Armoury)
By anonymous (private collection)

Catherine II by Young (after Shubin)
Catherine II by Dmitry Levitskiy (1780s ?, Russian museum)

Borovikovsky

Catherine II walking by V.Borovikovskiy (1794, Tretyakov gallery)
Catherine II walking by V.Borovikovskiy (1800-1810, Russian museum)
Catherine II walking, engraving by Nikolay Utkin after Borovikovskiy (1827)

Miniatures

Catherine II writing her Nakaz (1760-70s, Hermitage)
Catherine II with her cousin Gustav III of Sweden (Nationalmuseum Stockholm)
Catherine II with laurel wreath by anonymous (19 c, priv.coll)
Catherine after Vigee-Lebrun (location unknown)