Gallery
-
Equestrian portrait of Catherine II in the attire of a male officer
-
Portrait by Albert Albertrandi of Catherine II, circa 1770
-
Portrait by Mikhail Shibanov of Catherine II in travelling-costume, 1787
-
Portrait of Catherine II by Dmitry Levitsky, by 1782
Read more about this topic: Catherine The Great
Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)