The canvas is marked by the picturesque and compositional features typical of some chamber portraits of PS Drozhdin. Extremely bright warm coloristic scale, reminiscent of pastel portraits of the XVIII
Portrait of Empress Catherine II by Peter Drozhdin
Traditional in its composition and paraphernalia, the ceremonial imperial portrait is growing. But his attribution is very interesting. The canvas was bought in 1882 by PM Tretyakov as a work