Caravacock Louis

In the double portrait of Louis Karavak’s brush, the daughters of Peter I and Catherine I – nine-year-old Anna and eight-year-old Elizabeth – appear before us. They are represented in

Louis Karavak wrote the first portrait of Peter I in 1716. It was this year that the French engraving from a portrait of this type is dated. It is possible

Louis Caravacque, a French master invited to Russia, soon achieved great fame and the position of a court painter. He worked in Russia for many years and painted portraits of

For the first time this work of L. Caravac was exhibited in 1870 at the exhibition of Russian portraits in Petersburg as “Portrait of Peter III in Early Youth”. At