Item #1194 Russkie potomki frantsuzskoi imperatritsii: gertsogi leikhtenbergskie v Peterburge (Russian Descendants of the French Empress: the Dukes of Leuchtenberg in St. Petersburg). A. A. Babin E. E. Piiaeva.
Russkie potomki frantsuzskoi imperatritsii: gertsogi leikhtenbergskie v Peterburge (Russian Descendants of the French Empress: the Dukes of Leuchtenberg in St. Petersburg)

Russkie potomki frantsuzskoi imperatritsii: gertsogi leikhtenbergskie v Peterburge (Russian Descendants of the French Empress: the Dukes of Leuchtenberg in St. Petersburg)

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2011. sewn pb., This Hermitage exhibition catalogue displays paintings, drawings, arms, and decorative arts from the collection of Napoleon Bonaparte’s wife Josephine, her son Eugene de Beauharnais, and their descendants, especially Maximilian, whose decision to move the family’s collection to St. Petersburg in the 1840s after his marriage to Nicholas I’s daughter, was a windfall for Russia. The collection has paintings of several European countries: Italy of the fifteenth to the eighteenth century; Holland and Flanders of the sixteenth and seventeenth century; France of the eighteenth and nineteenth century; Germany and Switzerland of the early nineteenth century. Also published are works from others genres: German furniture and French porcelain, a service commissioned by Josephine in 1809 and later brought to Russia by her grandson; ceremonial arms of French, Italian and Russian manufacture, most of the early nineteenth century; Chinese enamel cloisonné of the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Legends to the illustrations unfold complicated provenances and attest to the role of collectors in art history commissioning works of art and determining how and where they are preserved. 136 pp., 8 3/8 x 11 1/4 ins, 6 b-&-w illus., 106 color, 35 line drawings, Rus. with summary in ENGLISH. Item #1194
ISBN: 9785902671930

Price: $74.00

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