Panorama of St Petersburg with Falconet's Bronze Horseman

Details

After Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875-1957)
Panorama of St Petersburg with Falconet's Bronze Horseman
signed in Cyrillic and dated in the plate 'M. Dobuzhinskii 1912' (lower right)
lithograph in colours on on two joined sheets of wove paper
23 x 66¾ in. (58.4 x 169.6 cm.)

Provenance

The collection of Anatol Pedan, Riga.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Restored Names: Russian Art of 19th-20th Century from the collection of Anatol Pedan, The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, 2011, illustrated pp. 38-39, listed p. 220.

Exhibited

Riga, The Latvian National Museum of Art, Restored Names: Russian Art of 19th-20th Century from the collection of Anatol Pedan, 19 August-20 September 2011.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The original panorama was painted en plein air from the environs of the Senate church as a commission from the Moscow publisher I. N. Knebel' (1854-1926). A gouache study for this painting is held in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.

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