Louis Caravaque 1730(1730)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 262 x 205 cm (103.1 x 80.7 in)
cyf Portrait of Empress Anna Ioannovna Louis Caravaque, a French portrait painter, was a native of Gascony. He went to Russia, and in 1716 painted at Astrakhan the portrait of Peter the Great, which has been engraved by Massard and by Langlois. He again painted the Czar in 1723, and subsequently the Empresses Anne and Elizabeth. He died in Russia in 1752.
