Saint Constantine and Saint Helena with the True Cross. Oil painting.

Date:
[1850?]
Reference:
34400i
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Saint Constantine and Saint Helena with the True Cross. Oil painting. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Emperor Constantine I and his mother the empress dowager Helena. As well as showing an empress, the present painting belonged to one: Eugénie, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, though her son was less successful than Constantine, for he was killed in the Anglo-Zulu War on 1 June 1879

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[1850?]

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1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 11.2 x 8.7 cm + cardboard box

Lettering

S[vi︠a︡]t[yi] Ts[ar] Konstantin'. S[vi︠a︡]t[ai︠a︡] Ts[aritsa] Elena

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Wellcome Collection 34400i

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