id: 142753 accession number: 1966.458.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.458.1 updated: 2020-09-15 09:01:59.477000 Imperial Framed Miniature of Tsar Nicholas II, 1896. Johannes Zehngraf (Russian, 1857-1908), Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Russian, 1860-1903), House of Fabergé, (Russian, 1842-1918). Gold, jade, rubies, gouache, ivory, glass; overall: 15.3 x 5 x 5 cm (6 x 1 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The India Early Minshall Collection 1966.458.1 title: Imperial Framed Miniature of Tsar Nicholas II title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1896 creation date earliest: 1896 creation date latest: 1896 current location: 211 Fabergé creditline: The India Early Minshall Collection copyright: --- culture: Russia, St. Petersburg, late 19th Century technique: gold, jade, rubies, gouache, ivory, glass department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Portrait Miniature find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Johannes Zehngraf (Russian, 1857-1908) - miniaturist * Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Russian, 1860-1903) - workmaster * House of Fabergé, (Russian, 1842-1918) - maker --- measurements: Overall: 15.3 x 5 x 5 cm (6 x 1 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: miniatures inscribed: Zehngraf. translation: remark: inscription: Marks underneath base: 56, crossed anchors [assay mark for St. Petersburg, 1882-96]; hallmark for workmaster Mikhail Perkhin (in Cyrillic); FABERGE (in Cyrillic); scratched 312 H, BMM 1+. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). title: Fabergé in America opening date: 1996-02-12T00:00:00 Fabergé in America. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (February 12-May 5, 1996); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (organizer) (May 25-July 28, 1996); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (August 24-November 2, 1996); New Orleans Museum of Art (December 7, 1996-February 8, 1997); The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 12-May 11, 1997). title: Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique opening date: 2008-09-15T00:00:00 Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2008-January 18, 2009); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (February 7-May 31, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Charity Exhibition of Fabergé Artistic Objects, Old Miniatures, and Snuff Boxes (Выставка художественных произведений К. Фаберже в особняке П.П. фон Дервиза, Санкт-Петербург). Baron von Dervis Mansion, Saint Petersburg, Russia (March 1902). --- PROVENANCE Tsar Nicholas II [1868-1918] and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna [1872-1918], purchased from the maker, November 22, 1896 (by tsarina), Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russia date: 1896-1918 footnotes: * Imperial provenance discovered in Russian state ledgers by Kieran McCarthy, Wartski, London, 2019. citations: Provisional Russian Government, Kremlin, Moscow date: 1917-1922 footnotes: citations: (The Schaffer Collection of Russian Imperial Art Treasures [A La Vielle Russie], New York, NY) date: ?-1948 footnotes: citations: India Early Minshall [1885-1965], Cleveland, OH; bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1948-1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This painted miniature is one of two miniatures that were personal gifts from the tsar and tsarina to one another in 1896, a year after the birth of their firstborn child, Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna. The tsar gave this miniature of himself to his wife, and she gave the one of the baby to him. digital description: The giving of miniatures had long been a common practice among wealthy and aristocratic families by the time Faberge began combining portraits with his richly decorated frames. The Russian imperial family delighted in having these personal mementos and commissioned many different miniatures to place around their private apartments, providing a warm family atmosphere in an otherwise highly formal existence. wall description: The painted miniatures depict Tsar Nicholas II and his first-born daughter, Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hawley, Henry H. Fabergé and His Contemporaries: The India Early Minshall Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 24-5, cat 8 url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/836254532 Habsburg, Géza von, and David Park Curry. Fabergé in America. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 107, cat. 83. url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/34433639 Harrison, Stephen, Emmanuel Ducamp, and Jeannine J. Falino. Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 178, cat 59, fig. 64 url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/230187932 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.458.1/1966.458.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.458.1/1966.458.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.458.1/1966.458.1_full.tif