A. A. Babin, E. P. Renne

Zhivopis’ skandinavskikh stran i Finlandii XVIII – XX vekov. Katalog kollektsii (Paintings from Scandinavia and Finland 18th – 20th centuries. Catalog of the [Hermitage] collection), 9785935728106; VIII- :

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn cl. A full presentation of the Hermitage’s collection of paintings by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish painters comes only once in a generation or so and incorporates decades of research by the museum's curators. Though small by comparison with its collections of Western European painting, the collection has major artists of the various national schools such as the Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt, the Swedish artist Alexander Roslin, the Danish portraitist Laurent Tuxen, and the Norwegian Frits Thaulow, who recorded the stark beauty of the northern European landscape. Vigilius Eriksen, born in Denmark, created the best portraits of the mid eighteenth-century Russian court, and the Swede Benjamin Patersen did cityscapes in the young imperial capital that are both accurate and beautiful visual chronicles of St. Petersburg in the early nineteenth century. 182 p., approx. 200 color illus., Rus. with title page, introduction, artists’ names, and index in ENGLISH. Item #3105
ISBN: 9785935728106

Price: $94.00