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Dmitry Levitzky: Portrait of Catherine II the Legislatress in the Temple Devoted to the Godess of Justice   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL))
Artist
Dmitry Levitzky  (1735–1822)  wikidata:Q556681
 
Dmitry Levitzky
Alternative names
Dmitry Levitzky, Dmitrij Grigorievic Levickij, Dmitry Grigorievich Levitzky, Дмитрий Григорьевич Левицкий
Description -Russian painter
Date of birth/death 1735 Edit this at Wikidata 4 April 1822 (in Julian calendar) Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kyiv Saint Petersburg
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Saint Petersburg, Moscow
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artist QS:P170,Q556681
Title
Russian:
«Екатерина II в виде Законодательницы в храме богини Правосудия»

Portrait of Catherine II the Legislatress in the Temple Devoted to the Godess of Justice
title QS:P1476,ru:"Екатерина II в виде Законодательницы в храме богини Правосудия"
label QS:Lru,"Екатерина II в виде Законодательницы в храме богини Правосудия"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Catherine II the Legislatress in the Temple Devoted to the Godess of Justice"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Portrait by D. G. Levitsky of the Empress Catherine II of Russia/Catherine the Great. 1770 (?), St. Petersburg, Russia.
The portrait is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. It was scanned from the Sept. 1998 issue of National Geographic Magazine (Vol.194/No.3).
NB: No such painting in the Hermitage can be found now
Date after 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
institution QS:P195,Q132783
Source/Photographer Original uploader was Mrlopez2681 at en.wikipedia; transferred to Commons by User:Teratornis using CommonsHelper.

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