Evgraf Peterovich Chemesov
2006. Sewn cl. This is the first attempt at a detailed account of the brief life and career of one of theeighteenth-century portrait engraver who recorded in lively engravings the magnates of the imperial capital. Using previous histories of eighteenth-century art in German and Russian as well as archival sources, Malinovskii shows how Chemesov raised engraving in Russia in the middle of the eighteenth century to a professional level so that that collectors of the period took Chemesov’s works for those of his German teacher G. F. Schmidt. Chemesov's life studying and teaching at the Russian Academy of Fine Arts is a good rrecord of the art eduction in th Academy's early years. 139 pp., 8 1/4 x 11 ins., 40 b-&-w illus., sewn cl., Rus. Item #123
ISBN: 5901805259
Price: $36.00