2-701-813 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Khovanskaya and Khrushcheva', 1773, (1939). Portrait of Ekaterina Khrushcheva and Princess Ekaterina Khovanskaya, pupils of the Smolny Institute for Noblemen's Daughters, playing in a pastoral, one of the 'Smolny Girls' series of pictures. Renowned portraitist Dmitri Levitsky (1735-1822) was elected an academician of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg. Painting, which 'came from the Great Palace in Peterhof', in the collection of The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. From "The Russian State Museum". [State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad, 1939]