Anna Fedorovna by A.C.Ritt (priv.coll).

Anna Feodorovna (1781-1860), Grand Duchess Constantine of Russia, née Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield, in white dress with blue jacket and white underdress, red shawl, small gold hoop earring and triple gold chain necklace, wearing a red, blue and white bandeau in her long flowing curling brown hair adorned with a white ostrich feather; arranging pale pink roses in an urn, foliate background
signed 'Ritt' (lower left)
on ivory
4 1/16 in. (103 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame with easel stand
Lot 210: AUGUSTIN-CHRISTIAN RITT (RUSSIAN, 1765-1799)
Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
by Christie's
November 27, 2012
London, United Kingdom
Provenance: Christie's, Geneva, 28 April 1976, lot 107.
Robert D. Brewster (1916-1995) Collection, New York; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1995, lot 67.

Literature: G. N. Komelova, Augustin Ritt: Russian Miniaturist 1765-1799. Life and Art, St Petersburg, 2004, illustrated p. 155, no. 82 of the catalogue raisonné and listed in the artist's fee book for 1798.