SVERCHKOV, Nikolai Egorovich and Others. 1817-1898. Chevaux Russes Large oblong folio containing 28 lithographed plates on card of studs and mares from the finest stud farms in Russia, each plate titled and described in Russian. Album, 610x460mm, bound in contemporary half red morocco gilt, spine lavishly decorated and lettered by Picart of Paris. Lithographs by Jean Velten and Paul Petit. All lithographs dated circa 1846-1860.

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SVERCHKOV, Nikolai Egorovich and Others. 1817-1898. Chevaux Russes Large oblong folio containing 28 lithographed plates on card of studs and mares from the finest stud farms in Russia, each plate titled and described in Russian. Album, 610x460mm, bound in contemporary half red morocco gilt, spine lavishly decorated and lettered by Picart of Paris. Lithographs by Jean Velten and Paul Petit. All lithographs dated circa 1846-1860.

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Nikolai Egorovich Sverchkov (1817-1898) was a well-known painter, whose works included mainly equestrian themes. Born in St. Petersburg, he visited France, Germany and Holland. He exhibited in Paris from 1859 and one of his works was bought by the French Emperor Napoleon III in 1863. He was a member of the Academy in St. Petersburg from 1852. He died at Tsarskoe Selo.

The album represents horses from well-known Russian stud farms such as the ones owned by Count Zubov, Count A.F. Orlov, Count K.K. Toll', Chesmenskii zavod, Count Rastopchin, etc.

For a similar album, but incomplete without the lithographs of Schwabe and Avtanomov see Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Horses in Russian Art, (2001), pgs. 178-183

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