The Empress Elizabeth of Russia on Horseback, Attended by a Page is an equestrian painting of 1743 in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, with several replicas. Done in oil on canvas by Russo-German painter Georg Christoph Grooth, the work depicts Empress Elizabeth of Russia on horseback. The empress is shown dressed in military uniform, attended by a negro page. Elizabeth is shown to be in command of the horse, while her holding of a field marshal's baton represents her command over the sea. The painting was a notable success for Grooth, a former art curator turned painter.
The version in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is also attributed to Grooth, dated to the years after 1743.
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