La revue de la Garde passée par l'Empereur Paul Ier devant le Château Michel (6 janvier 1801)

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Alexandre Benois (1870-1960)
La revue de la Garde passée par l'Empereur Paul Ier devant le Château Michel (6 janvier 1801)
signed 'Alexandre Benois' (lower left); further signed, inscribed with title and numbered '92/Alexandre Benois' (on the reverse); with inscription from Alexandre Djanchieff 'Alexandre Benois/1870-1960/Revue de la Garde Imperiale passée/par le Tsar Paul Ier (Palais Mikalovski)/Replique datant environ de 1950 et replique/de l'original executé en 1907 et qui se/trouve exposé au Musée Russe de Leningrad/A figuré à l'Exposition "Mostra Dei/Benois" Como 1955. sous le No 94/Porte au dos le cachet de cette exposition' (on the reverse of the backboard)
pencil, ink, watercolour and gouache on paper
17½ x 22¾ in. (44.5 x 58 cm.)

Provenance

Acquired directly from Anne Benois-Tcherkessoff (1895-1984), daughter of the artist, by Alexandre Djanchieff in Paris in the early 1970s.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, C. Piatti, Mostra dei Benois, Como, 1955, listed p. 39, no. 94.

Exhibited

Como, Villa comunale dell'Olmo, Mostra dei Benois, May-July 1955, no. 94.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Per Alexandre Djanchieff's inscription on the reverse of the backboard, this work is a variation of Benois's 1907 gouache by the same title which is now held in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.

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