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Portrait Medallion of Peter the Great and Family
(18th and 19th Centuries )
This medallion is dated and signed on the back by Gregory Musikiiskii, the first Russian painter of portrait miniatures. It can be compared to an earlier enamel painting of Peter the Great with his family, now in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, executed by the same artists in 1717. Here, the Russian emperor is depicted together with his wife Catherine, his three daughters Anna, Elizabeth (the future empress), and Natalia, and his grandson Peter (the future Peter II). Musikiiskii was transferred from the Moscow Kremlin Armory to St. Petersburg to work for the court of Peter the Great, the founder of modern Russia.
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), Saint Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2017-2018 | Fabergé and the Russian Crafts Tradition: An Empire's Legacy . The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 1996-1997 | Russian Enamels. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1988-1989 | A Millennium of Christianity: Russian Art from The Walters Art Gallery. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1959-1960 | Russian Art: Icons and Decorative Arts from the Origin to the Twentieth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 9/18/1951 | Treatment | repaired |
| 3/28/1962 | Treatment | loss compensation |
| 2/3/1988 | Treatment | cleaned; examined for condition |
| 12/7/1988 | Treatment | cleaned; loss compensation; repaired; coated; examined for exhibition |
| 3/4/2016 | Examination | Examined |
| 3/4/2016 | Examination | Examined in preparation for exhibition. |
| 3/4/2016 | Treatment | Cleaned, repaired |
| 3/4/2016 | Treatment | Cleaned to remove dirt, grime, and discolored prior restorations. Losses were filled and inpainted to better harmonize with the extant portions of the original. |
Geographies
Russia, St. Petersburg (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall H: 3 1/8 × W: 4 3/16 × D: 5/16 in. (8 × 10.7 × 0.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
44.326