Fabergé's surprise
About this painting
- Year
- 2020
- Dimensions
- 70×50 cm
- Technique
- oil on canvas
- Cycle
- Outside any cycle
Description
A peacock as Renaissance aristocrat, the Romanovs' house hidden inside an egg, the irony of luxury — must a jewel be shown, or hidden? A figure with a woman's body and a peacock's head, in a richly embroidered red-and-gold Renaissance gown with a white ruff, holds in her hands a blue-and-gold Fabergé egg; the background a cool silvery grey.