Anna Feodorovna opted to be portrayed wearing a springtime day dress in this 1848 Winterhalter.
Her dress actually has an evening dress-like off shoulder neckline. The idea is like that of Winterhalter's 1857 outdoor portrait of Empress Eugénie.
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