Michail Sibanov Sold at Auction Prices

PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF CATHERINE THE GREAT

A RUSSIAN PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF EMPRESS CATHERINE THE GREAT, 19TH CENTURY, after the 1787 painting by Mikhail Shibanov, painted on ivory, 6.2 X 4.8 cm (2 3/8 x 1 7/8 in.), a Polish Ministry of Culture export document circa 1948 attached to the verso PROVENANCE: Acquired in Moscow circa 1890-1910 by the Grandmother of the present owner; passed down in the family to the Mother of the present owner, who was born in Moscow and emigrated to Poland in 1925; thence by descent to the current owner, whose Mother emigrated from Poland in 1939