Louis Caravaque
Louis Caravaque (Marseilles, 1684–1754, St. Petersburg) was a French portrait painter who worked in Russia.
Life[]
Caravaque was born in Marseilles, in a family from Gascony. He went to Russia, and painted a portrait of Peter the Great at Astrakhan in 1716 . It was engraved by Massard and by Langlois. He painted the Tsar again in 1723, and later did portraits of the Empresses Anne and Elizabeth. He died in Russia St. Petersburg, on June 9, 1754.[1]
Gallery[]
Portrait of Peter the Great.
Portrait of the future Empress Elizabeth as an Olympic goddess. Now at the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Portrait of Catherine II of Russia, 1745. Now at the Gatchina Palace.
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Sources[]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Caravaque, Louis". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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