Drawing in black pencil, stump and gray wash.

Representing the left profile of the Empress Catherine The Great, laureate in trompe l'oeil imitating an oval marble bas-relief in neoclassical style.

Last third of the 18th century.

In an old wooden and gilded stucco oval frame.

Slight tears and restorations.

H. 74 x L. 60 cm.

Frame: H. 90 x L. 78 cm.

Collection Maurice Druon (1918-2009), author et former French minister of Cultural Affairs.

- Fedot Shubin, Catherine II in profile left, 1792-1794, pencil drawing signed and dated, kept at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (ill. 3).

- Fedot Shubin, Bust of an Unknown Woman in Left Profile, 1770, marble bas-relief, kept at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (ill. 4).

- Fedot Shubin, Bust of Catherine II Laureate, 1771, marble sculpture, kept at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (inv. A.32-1964, ill. 5).

- Fedot Shubin, Bust of Laureate Catherine II, c. 1783, marble sculpture, kept at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (ill. 6).

- Fedot Shubin, Profile of Laureate Catherine II, 1783, marble bas-relief, kept at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (ill. 7).

- Fedot Shubin, Bust of Laureate Catherine II, 1791, marble sculpture, kept at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (ill. 8).

- Fedot Shubin, Cameo on amber with the left profile of Catherine II, 1763, kept at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (inv. XII-161, ill. 9).