Portrait of Countess Elizaveta Romanovna Vorontsova (1739–1792), 1762

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Portrait of Countess Elizaveta Romanovna Vorontsova (1739–1792), 1762, Russian, Saint Petersburg, Wool, silk (22-24 warps per inch, 10 per cm.), H. 42 1/2 x W. 34 inches (108 x cm), Textiles-Tapestries, In 1716, Tzar Peter the Great founded a tapestry-weaving workshop in his new capital city, Saint Petersburg. Although many of the tapestries made in the workshop took Old Master paintings by the likes of Rembrandt and van Dyck as their models, some were more unusual

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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