The Russian Sale
Catalogue Information: 274 lots
Date: 2000
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
USA
Lot 1: Joseph Friedrich August Darbes
German 1747-1810 a pair of early russian portraits both signed l.l. and dated 1780 and 1782 oil on canvas (2) oval 65 by 46 cm., 25 1/2 by 18 in. Darbes was born in Hamburg and studied in Copenhagen. From c.1773 until 1784 he lived and worked in St P [...more]
Lot 2: Gustav Schwarz
German, c.1809-not earlier than 1854 regimental manoeuvres at krasnoe selo signed l.r. oil on canvas 27.5 by 36 cm., 10 1/2 by 13 3/4 in. Schwarz's birth and death dates remain unrecorded in Benezit and Thieme-und-Becker; there appears to be little i [...more]
Lot 3: Russian School, early 19th century
tsar alexander i with empress elizabeth alexeevna oil on canvas 65 by 51 cm., 26 by 20 in.
Lot 4: Karl Pavlovich Briullov, 1799-1852
warrior accompanying a young maid on horseback signed in Latin l.l. and dated 1835 watercolour over pencil on paper approx: 32 by 24.5 cm., 12 1/2 by 9 3/4 in. In 1835 Briullov was saved from his increasing bouts of depression by an offer from Count [...more]
Lot 5: Maxim Nikforovich Vorobiev, 1787-1855
evening at the house of abu-gosh, during the travels of the artist to jerusalem in 1820 signed indistinctly l.l. oil on canvas 43.5 by 64 cm., 17 by 25 1/4 in. The artist accompanied D.V.Dashkov on a journey to the Middle East, leaving St Petersburg [...more]
