Dmitry Levitzky1735–1822Portrait of Catherine II the Legislatress in the Temple Devoted to the Godess of Justice
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Tretyakov Gallery
Moscow, Russia
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
Particulars
- Accession number
- 5813
Sources
- Tretyakov Gallery: the museum's own open data · fetched 3 days ago
- Image: Tretyakov Gallery — Museum open access
Meanwhile, in the life of Dmitry Levitzky
The whole life1756–1822 · Workplace
Saint Petersburg
1771–1788
Head of the Academy's Portrait Class
From 1771 he taught at the Academy of Arts and headed its portrait class for seventeen years; he retired in 1788.
1773–1778
Commissions from Empress Catherine II
Levitzky's name appears repeatedly in the empress's personal accounts: 1,000 rubles for two portraits of her (1773), 800 rubles for a portrait of the Prussian king, and 1,000 rubles for a large portrait of Catherine II (1778) — enormous sums for the time.
