La cour de l'impératrice Catherine II, ses collaborateurs et - Lot 330

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La cour de l'impératrice Catherine II, ses collaborateurs et - Lot 330
La cour de l'impératrice Catherine II, ses collaborateurs et son entourage, 189 silhouettes. S-Pétersbourg, imp. d'Edouard Goppé, 1899. 2 vol. in-4 (25,5 x 20 cm). Demi-maroquin aubergine foncé aux coins, dos lisse orné et titré. Les plats en percaline cerise, ornés du titre, de filets et d'ex-libris aux chiffres H. D.?, dorés. Tête dorée (reliure de l'époque). Belle et rare édition. Manque à Fekula. The collection was formed by Count P.Razumovsky. The artist was F.G.Sideau, who resided in St.Petersburg in 1782-1784. Although he only signed 14 silhouettes, there is no doubt that the whole work belongs to him. The pictures, bound in 2 vol., passed from the Razumovskys to the Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich, from whom they were inherited by his grandson, Duke George of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Duke George found them in his library in 1895 and had them published in 1899. (Cf.: The Diaghilev-Lifar Library. Sotheby Parke Bernet Monaco S.A., 1975, p.40.) Diaghilev-Lifar Library 132. Fekula 2563. Bogomolov 416. Bibliochronica I 117.
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