Dvortsy Peterburga v Izobrazheniyakh Khudozhnikov XVIII i XIX Stoletiy / The Palaces of Saint Petersburg Depicted by 18th and 19th Century Painters

Leningrad: State Russian Museum Publishing Company, 1991. Softcover. White stapled card wraps with color illus. and black lettering. 40 with 17 color plates. NF; a very good, clean copy that appears to be unread. Item #146884

Dual text in Russian followed by English (not parallel). Includes a brief introductory essay and the catalogue annotations, both by Petrova. Some of the palaces included are those belonging to Elizaveta Petrovna, Count Stroganov, the Yusupovs, Mikhail Pavlovich, as well as the Winter Palace and the Stone Island Palace. Views are mixed between interior and exterior images. Artists who rendered the paintings include Yakovlevich, Alekseyev, Shchedrin, Paterssen, Beggrov, Stepanovich, Konstantinovich, Sadnovnikov, Osipovich, Redkovsky, Lipgart and several unknown painters. A lovely catalogue.

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