# Portrait of the Princesses Davidova and Rzevskaja [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LEVITSKY, Dmitry Grigorevich]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 144 x 102 cm ## Commentary Portrait of the Princesses Davidova and Rzevskaja 1771-72 Oil on canvas, 144 x 102 cm State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg The portrait of Pheodosia Stepanovna Rzhevskaya \(1760-1795\), later Princess Golitsyna, and Princess Nastasia Mikhailovna Davidova \(b. 1764\) is from the series of seven paintings called the "Smolianki" \(Girls Educated at the Smolny Institute\), commissioned by Catherine the Great. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of Catherine II]() - [Portrait of Catherine II]() - [Portrait of Mikhail Krechetnikov]() - [Portrait of Nikolai Novikov]() - [Portrait of Prokofiy Demidov]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()