Paintings of Imperial Russia when it was very grand. Adolphe Ladurner, artist. Born in Paris in 1798 or 1799, he painted in Russia where he died in 1856.
Tag: Russian
Watercolors of royal and imperial rooms to make you want to own everything in them. Two that belonged to the last tsar’s mother and the third the sitting room of his mother in law.
Russian grandeur from the other side of 1917. Mostly from the turn of the last century but one a good bit back. Not as much fun as a present from the tsar but still. Collection of the Walters Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
What you get if your sister is the tsarina. Watercolors of various rooms in the city residence of Grand Duke Sergei and his wife Elizabeth Feodorovna. From the album “Views of the Church, Residential and Residence of Grand Duke Sergei and Grand Duchess Ella, Moscow.” 1902 and 1905. Russian. Ignatius Nivinsky, artist (1881-1915). One by V. P. Trofimov. Collections of the State Historical Museum, Moscow.
More fabulous watercolors of Russian rooms at mid 19th century. So detailed that you feel you could travel right into the painting and sit down on the sofa. These from the palaces of Tsarkoe Selo. Luigi Premazzi, artist (1814-1891).
Art with an ability to overpower your room. On the other hand if you hung one of these up you’d be done decorating for life. Russian. Viktor Vasnetsov, artist. Living from 1848 to 1926, he loved historical and mythological subjects as you can plainly see.
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).
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.
Avant-garde art in colors that dazzle the mind. Russian. Olga Rozanova, artist (1886-1918). All of these works having been published in “The Great utopia: the Russian and Soviet avant-garde, 1915-1932” in 1992, which has just been made available in digitalized form by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Library.
Watercolors in eternal sunlight of the tsar’s Russia from somewhere in the mid nineteenth century. Luigi Premazzi, artist. Living from 1814 to 1891 he grew up in Italy and died in Constantinople but worked in Russia.
Revolutionary art by internationally known Russian artist Aleksandra Ekster (Alexandra Exter). Living from 1882 to 1949, she was a member of the Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, and Constructivist schools.
