Museums: Gallery of royal portraits opened at the State Historical Museum

July 3 at the Moscow State Historical Museum opened the exhibition “Royal and aristocratic portraits, furniture and design”.

The exposition features formal portraits, among them - masterpieces of F. Rokotov, V. Borovikovsky, O. Kiprensky; portraits created by fashionable European artists - A. Kaufman, K. Robertson, as well as lesser-known painters - I. Ligotsky and F. Kyunel. Among the images they are Empress Catherine II, Emperor Alexander I, Countess A. Sheremeteva, the Countess A. Chernysheva and her daughter E. Vadkovskaya, Counts and N. P. Sheremetev and D. N. Sheremetev, Princess A. A. Golitsyna, N. F.  Yengalycheva with her daughter, V. P. Davydov and O. I. Davydova, born Princess Baryatinskaya (later - the Count and Countess Orlov-Davydovy).

The presented collection features one of the borders of the extensive collection of portraits of the XVIII-XIX centuries from the collection of the State Historical Museum.

The exhibition is housed in one of the halls of the second floor of the State Historical Museum, which originally had the name the “Catherine hall”.