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accession number:	2008.296
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Portrait of Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna, later Queen of Württemberg, c. 1860. Alois Gustav Rockstuhl (Russian, 1798–1877). Watercolor on ivory on a gilt metal mount; framed: 6 x 5 cm (2 3/8 x 1 15/16 in.); unframed: 5.7 x 4.6 cm (2 1/4 x 1 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.296

title:				Portrait of Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna, later Queen of Württemberg
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creation date:			c. 1860
creation date earliest:		1855
creation date latest:		1865
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	Russia, 19th century
technique:	watercolor on ivory on a gilt metal mount
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Portrait Miniature
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CREATORS

* Alois Gustav Rockstuhl (Russian, 1798–1877)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 6 x 5 cm (2 3/8 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 5.7 x 4.6 cm (2 1/4 x 1 13/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed at right center: Rokstuhl [in Cyrillic]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives
	opening date:   2013-11-10T00:00:00
	<i>Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Main European Rotation (Gallery 202), January 17, 2011 - July 18, 2011.

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PROVENANCE

	Estate of Muriel Butkin
	date: 2008    
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	By 1975	Purchased by Noah L. or Muriel Butkin from an unknown source before 1975.
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	c. 1975-1980	Noah L. Butkin (Shaker Heights, Ohio), upon his death, by inheritance to his wife, Muriel Butkin.
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	1980-2008	Muriel Butkin (Shaker Heights, Ohio), upon her death, held in trust by the estate.
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	2008-2009	Estate of Muriel Butkin
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wall description:
The miniature of Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna, later Queen of Württemberg, is among the finest of Alois Gustav Rockstuhl's portraits. It portrays Catherine at around 4 years of age and is one of the few miniatures of children in the museum's collection. This work was painted several decades after Catherine's death and is based on a large-scale, late 18th-century oil painting by Petr Zharkov. A member of Catherine's family likely commissioned the portrait from Rockstuhl as a memento. Zharkov also painted Catherine's three sisters in similar poses, and although Rockstuhl probably reproduced these portraits in miniature as well, the location of each is currently unknown. The star of the Order of Saint Catherine is partially hidden beneath the delicate white ruffled neckline of her dress. The only order available to women in imperial Russia, it established Catherine as a member of the royal family while also referring to her saintly namesake. Catherine grew to be an intelligent and charming woman, deeply loved by her older brother Tsar Alexander I and famous for rejecting the marriage proposal of Napoleon Bonaparte. Catherine married twice, gaining the title Queen of Württemberg through her second marriage to her cousin Prince William of Württemberg. She died tragically of erysipelas complicated by pneumonia in 1819 at the age of 31, leaving behind four children and a reputation as a charitable and kind ruler.
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