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Lot Essay
David Martemianovich Borodin (1760-1860) was the last elected ataman of the Ural cossack host (voisko) and acted as such from 1798 to 1823 and from 1827 to 1830 and was extremely popular amongst cossacks.
He fought in the Kirghiz steppes in 1784 and 1787, and on the Caucasus line from 1789 to 1791 and in Switzerland from 1798 to 1800 during the Suvorov campaign as ataman in the army of General Rimskii Korsakov.
Carl Adolph Heinrich Hess was not the only artist in the family. His three sons, Peter (1792-1871), Henrik (1796-1863) and Karl (1801-1874) became noticed talented artists, especially Peter with his large oil compositions depicting the russian patriotic war of 1812 against Napoleon's armies.
The above picture is often mistaken as a work executed by the son of the artist, Peter, (see B. Asvarich and G. Vilinbachov, The 1812 Patriotic War in the Paintings of Peter Hess, Leningrad, 1984, p. 123 footnote 5). The subject itself appears to be only properly identified in the article written by Nicholas Touroverov in 1939 in the Cossack Almanach, Cossacks in works by foreign artists. The composition itself and some of the characters were engraved by Greniher(?) at a later date. It is interesting to notice that the artist appears to have left a clin d'oeil in his picture; all the horses appear to look at the viewer.
He fought in the Kirghiz steppes in 1784 and 1787, and on the Caucasus line from 1789 to 1791 and in Switzerland from 1798 to 1800 during the Suvorov campaign as ataman in the army of General Rimskii Korsakov.
Carl Adolph Heinrich Hess was not the only artist in the family. His three sons, Peter (1792-1871), Henrik (1796-1863) and Karl (1801-1874) became noticed talented artists, especially Peter with his large oil compositions depicting the russian patriotic war of 1812 against Napoleon's armies.
The above picture is often mistaken as a work executed by the son of the artist, Peter, (see B. Asvarich and G. Vilinbachov, The 1812 Patriotic War in the Paintings of Peter Hess, Leningrad, 1984, p. 123 footnote 5). The subject itself appears to be only properly identified in the article written by Nicholas Touroverov in 1939 in the Cossack Almanach, Cossacks in works by foreign artists. The composition itself and some of the characters were engraved by Greniher(?) at a later date. It is interesting to notice that the artist appears to have left a clin d'oeil in his picture; all the horses appear to look at the viewer.