2-702-609 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Katharina Fürstin Bagration-Skawronska', (1933). Portrait of Princess Catherine Bagration (1783-1857), wife of Russian general Pyotr Bagration. She was famous for her love affairs, and travelled extensively in Europe in a carriage equipped with a bed. After a miniature of 1812 by Jean-Baptiste Isabey. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]