OCTOBER 2023 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE

A RUSSIAN OIL ON CANVAS PAINTING ATTR TO PETR VERESHCHAGIN

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Start price: $3,000

Estimated price: $5,000 - $7,000

Buyer's premium:

Oil on canvas painting in the style of Petr Petrovich Vereschagin (Russian, 1836 – 1886). The painting depicts a View of Moscow from the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge. On the left are trading shops, Moscow Kremlin behind a white stone wall with towers. Grand Kremlin Palace. In the background is the cathedral square. People walking on the bridge. Inscribed in Cyrillic "P. Vereshchagin" lower right. Pyotr Petrovich Vereshchagin was a Russian landscape and cityscape painter in the Academic style. He was the first to paint plein-air in the wilderness of the Urals. Brother of Vasily Petrovich Vereshchagin.

Dimensions: 25 1/2 x 12 1/2 in., (64.8 x 30.5 cm.)

Condition: There is a paint flake toward the right top corner. The canvas is relined.