AUGUSTIN-CHRISTIAN RITT (RUSSIAN, 1765-1799) AFTER LOUISE-ELISABETH VIGEE LE BRUN (FRENCH, 1755-1842)

AUGUSTIN-CHRISTIAN RITT (RUSSIAN, 1765-1799) AFTER LOUISE-ELISABETH VIGEE LE BRUN (FRENCH, 1755-1842) Elisaveta Alexandrovna Demidova (1779-1818), in white shift, worn loose around her shoulders revealing her right breast, her hands to her chest, blue-bordered white scarf over her curling hair, seated in an interior signed 'Ritt' (mid-right) on ivory oval, 4¾ in. (118 mm.) high, ormolu frame with inner beaded border