Monday, November 19, 2012

Alexander Ivanovich Sauerweid

Alexander Ivanovich Sauerweid (1783-1844) was best known as a painter of battle scenes.

 Attack on the Fortress of Varma by the Engineers Batallion, 23 September 1828 (1836)

The Battle of Leipzig, 16-19 October 1813

The Battle of Leipzig, from 2 to 7 October 1813 (1844)

Friday, November 16, 2012

Miscellanea

 Andrey Popov: Booths in Tula on Holy Week (1873)

 Kyriak Kostandi: Lilacs (1902)

 Pavel Petrovich Chistyakov: Patriarch Hermogenes Refusing to bless the Poles (1860)

 Pimen Nikitich Orlov: Roman Carnival (1859)

Vasily Sergeyevich Smirnov: Morning Outing of the Byzantine Empress 
to the Tombs of her Ancestors (1880s)

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Miscellanea

 Andrei Belloli: Bather (1861)

 Basil Ekgorst: Moving (1885)

Fyodor Slavik: Family Portrait on the Balcony
 
 Rudolf Frents: Hunting

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Miscellanea

 Bogdan Pavlovich Villevalde: Blucher and the Cossacks in Bautzen

 Dmitry Zhukov: A Dispute about Faith (1867)

 Ilya Zankovsky: In the Mountains. View of Ararat (1894)

 Isaac Polievktovich Batyukov: Conversation by the Chest (1893)

Nikolai Sergeevich Matveev: Against the Will of the Tonsure

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Miscellanea

 Ivan Sokolov: Kupala Night (1856)

 Jules Mayblum: Palace of Count PS Stroganov - Lounge

 Nikolai Kusnetsov: In Celebration (1879-81)

 Peter Alexandrovich Nilus: Autumn (1893)

Vladimir Kazantsev: The Urals (1888)

Monday, November 12, 2012

Alexander Makovsky

Alexander Makovsky (1869-1924) was a Russian painter. He was the son of another prominent Russian painter, Vladimir Makovsky.

 Dancing Crane (1897)

 Annoyed (1897)

 Landscape with Church (1900)

 Portrait of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna

 Portraits of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra Fedorovna (1903)

 The Volga River

 Transportation on the Volga (1918)

View of Plios (1918)

Friday, November 9, 2012