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Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benois (1870 - 1960)
Design for the Coronation Robes of Empress Catherine II, 1934
Salmina-Haskell (1989) 26.
Watercolour with graphite, pen and black ink and touches of red chalk over black chalk, on off-white laid paper. Sheet: 313 x 324 mm.
Signed in graphite lower left: A B.; Inscribed in graphite around drawing: No 7. // Catherine II / "Ornat" de / couronnement / La Grande couronne impériale / toute en diamants et perle / Cheveux naturels non / poudrés. / Péctoral en diamants / Corsage e
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Bequeathed by Mikhail Vasil'evich Braikevitch, 1949; WA1949.315.