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| Keywords: Grigorii Semenovich Musikiiskii - Portrait Medallion of Peter the Great and Family - Walters 44326.jpg This medallion is dated and signed on the back by Gregory Musikiiskii the first Russian painter of portrait miniatures It can be compared to an earlier enamel painting of Peter the Great with his family now in the Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg executed by the same artists in 1717 Here the Russian emperor is depicted together with his wife Catherine his three daughters Anna Elizabeth the future empress and Natalia and his grandson Peter the future Peter II Musikiiskii was transferred from the Moscow Kremlin Armory to St Petersburg to work for the court of Peter the Great the founder of modern Russia ca 1720 Modern technique painted enamel copper cm 8 1 10 7 accession number 44 326 21423 Alexandre Polovtsoff Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov Saint Petersburg and Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1930 Russian Art Icons and Decorative Arts from the Origin to the Twentieth Century The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1959-1960 A Millennium of Christianity Russian Art from The Walters Art Gallery The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1988-1989 Russian Enamels The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1996-1997 place of origin St Petersburg Russia Walters Art Museum license 2D ImageNote 1 706 689 117 151 1800 1528 2 Natalia ImageNoteEnd 1 Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Grigory Musikiysky 1720s portrait miniatures of Russia Portrait miniatures in the Walters Art Museum Family portraits of Russian rulers Peter I of Russia in portrait miniatures Family of Peter I of Russia Catherine I of Russia in portrait miniatures Anna Petrovna of Russia Portraits of Elizabeth of Russia as a child Peter II of Russia in portrait miniatures 1721 Natalia Petrovna Elizabeth of Russia in portrait miniatures Ermine clothing in art | ||||
