Tag: Imperial Russia

More plates from albums in the collections of the New York Public Library that mostly used to reside on Romanov bookshelves. Snatched up for you and I to see in the 1930’s.

"Krabiitsa." Number 43.
“Krabiitsa.” Number 43. From an old box kept in Count S.G. Stroganov’s palace. Chromolithograph. F. Dregera, lithographer. Published between 1849 and 1853 in Moscow by Tip. A. Semena. Image © The New York Public Library, 2019. Fair use license. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-12fd-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
"Korsunsky chandelier in Novgorod Sophia Cathedral." Number 46.
“Korsunsky chandelier in Novgorod Sophia Cathedral.” Number 46. Chromolithograph. 1849-53. Fedor G. Solnt͡sev, artist.F. Dregera, lithographer. Image © The New York Public Library, 2019. Fair use license. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-1300-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Tabernacle. Number 49.
Tabernacle. Number 49. 1849-53. Chromolithograph. Fedor Grigorevich Solntsev, artist. F. Dregera, lithographer. Published in Moscow by Tip. A. Semena. Image © The New York Public Library, 2019. Fair use license. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-1303-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Leftovers from the time when having an artist do a watercolor of every room in your home was the ultimate status symbol. This set being of the mansion of Baron A. Stieglitz in Saint Petersburg. 1870. Luigi Premazzi, watercolorist to the tsar (1814-1891).

Dining room (candelabra detail), Mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz. ca. 1869.
Dining room (candelabra detail), mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz. ca. 1869. Watercolor. Luigi Premazzi, painter (1814-1891). Image © 1998-2018 The State Hermitage Museum. Fair use license.via https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/woa-search/#search=Luigi%2520premazzi&meta_authoring_template=WOA
Dining room (chandelier detail), mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz. ca. 1869.
Dining room (chandelier detail), mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz. ca. 1869. Watercolor. Luigi Premazzi, painter (1814-1891). Image © 1998-2018 The State Hermitage Museum. Fair use license.via https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/woa-search/#search=Luigi%2520premazzi&meta_authoring_template=WOA
The Blue Drawing-Room, mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz. 1870. Luigi Premazzi, painter (1814-1891).
Blue drawing room, mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz. 1870. Luigi Premazzi, painter (1814-1891). ). Image © 1998-2018 The State Hermitage Museum. Fair use license.via https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/woa-search/#search=Luigi%2520premazzi&meta_authoring_template=WOA
Main staircase, Mansion of Baron Stieglitz. 1871. Watercolor.
Main staircase, mansion of Baron Stieglitz. 1871. Watercolor. Luigi Premazzi, painter (1814-1891). Collection of the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. Via https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Premazzi._Mansion_of_Baron_Stieglitz._Main_Staircase_%282%29._1871.jpg/809px-Premazzi._Mansion_of_Baron_Stieglitz._Main_Stairca
The White Drawing Room, mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz. 1870. Luigi Premazzi, painter
White drawing room, mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz. 1870. Luigi Premazzi, painter (1814-1891). Image © 1998-2018 The State Hermitage Museum. Fair use license.via https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/woa-search/#search=Luigi%2520premazzi&meta_authoring_template=WOA
Supper room, mansion of Baron Stieglitz. 1871
Supper room, mansion of Baron Stieglitz. 1871. Watercolor. Luigi Premazzi, painter (1814-1891). Collection of the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. Via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Premazzi._Mansion_of_Baron_Stieglitz._The_Supper-room._1871.jpg

Must have been taking a break from painting all those rooms in the Winter Palace. Sets of those watercolors coming, and lots of them. Just found more, mostly from Romanov palaces but some being of the drawing rooms of their friends.