The Golden drawing-room, The Winter Palace, St. Petersburg

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Grigorii Grigor'evich Chernetsov (1802-1865)
The Golden drawing-room, The Winter Palace, St. Petersburg
signed in Cyrillic and dated 'Gr.Chernetsov 1833' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic, heightened with gold on paper, unframed
13 1/8 x 18¼ in. (33.3 x 46.4 cm.)

Provenance

Empress Augusta, wife of the German Emperor Wilhelm I.

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Lot Essay

The present drawing depicts the Golden Drawing-room in the Winter Palace before it was destroyed by fire in 1837. The room was subsequently redesigned and is now known as the Malachite Room.
A preparatory pencil drawing of Chernetsov's watercolour can be found in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (see V. B. Semenov, Malakhit, Sverdlovsk, 1987, p. 38, fig. 13).

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