Title: Catherine II The Great, Empress of Russia
Object type: Medallion
Date: 1771
Artist:  Jean-Baptiste Nini 
Artist bio: Italian, Urbino 1717–1786 Chaumont-sur-Loire
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Medallion: cast terracotta (terre de Chaumont); frame: gilt wood
Dimensions: Diameter (without frame): 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm)
Classification: Sculpture-Miniature
Credit line: Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1952
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Portraits, term: Profiles, term: Women