Maria Feodorovna after Lampi (c.1797, priv.coll.)

RUSSIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1797
Tsarina Maria Feodorovna of Russia, née Princess Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg (1759-1828), in white dress, tiered white lace collar, diamond stomacher at corsage, jewelled coronet in her upswept curling fair hair, wearing the sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew and the red sash of the Order of St Catherine (unfinished)
on ivory
oval, 3¼ in. (82 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
Provenance

Drouot Rive Gauche, Paris, 18 March 1976, lot 143 (in a different frame).