Catafalque for the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (Front Elevation)., Vincenzo Brenna, 1796

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Catafalque for the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (Front Elevation)., 1796, Pen and gray-black ink, brush and watercolor, over traces of graphite of leadpoint, sheet: 28 1/4 x 23 3/8 in. ( x cm), Vincenzo Brenna (Italian, Florence 1745–1820 St. Petersburg), Frontal view of the catafalque designed by Brenna for the burial of Catherine the Great and her husband Tsar Peter III (died 1762) which took place in the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Paul in Saint Petersburg, Russia in November 1796

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