PORTRAIT OF NICHOLAS I

Creator(s): Christina Sanders Robertson (Artist)

About this object

This formal, full-length portrait shows Tsar Nicholas I dressed in the Cossack uniform, holding his hat in his proper right hand. He wears the blue sash of the Order of St. Andrew First Called as well as two stars and several badges on his left breast.

Full-length, standing portrait shows the Emperor dressed in the Cossack uniform, holding his hat in his proper right hand. He wears the blue sash of the Order of St. Andrew First Called as well as two stars and several badges of orders on his left breast. At right is a column.

Object name:

PORTRAIT OF NICHOLAS I

Made from:

Watercolor on paper

Made in:

Russia

Date made:

1840

Size:

Unframed: 15 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (39.4 × 26.7 cm) Framed: 22 × 16 3/4 × 3/4 in. (55.9 × 42.5 × 1.9 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

52.1

Class:

WATERCOLOR

Signature marks:

SIGNATURE Christina Robertson pinxit at right, bottom of image, in black on column date 1840 in black, at right bottom, beneath signature

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973