# Portrait of Grand Duchess Yelizaveta Petrovna as a Child [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [NIKITIN, Ivan Nikitich]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 54 x 43 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Grand Duchess Yelizaveta Petrovna as a Child 1712-13 Oil on canvas, 54 x 43 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Elizaveta Petrovna \(1709-1762\), also known as Yelisaveta and Elizabeth, was an Empress of Russia \(1741-1762\) who took the country into the War of Austrian Succession \(1740-1748\) and the Seven Years' War \(1756-1763\). ## Related artworks - [Portrait of Peter the Great on his Death-Bed]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()