$500
Estimate: $600 - $800
The Art of Russian Lacquer: 19th C Masterworks from the Taylor Collection
Auction: November 29, 2018 10:00:00 AM EDT
Illustrated:
Russian Lacquered Papier-Mâché Boxes: 200 Years of Hand-Painted Miniature Art, LM Antique Art, Thousand Oaks: 2017, pp. 19
Note:
Peter Aleksandrovich Gerasimov (1812-1869/1870) was a nobleman born to a family in court service in Moscow in 1812. He graduated from the Moscow Architectural School in 1832, and served in the Moscow Palaces Administration, where he served as a restroration architect. From 1852-1855 he participated in the restoration of the Old Kremlin Armoury Chamber, the Terem Palace, the Great Kremlin Palace, the Andronikov Monastery, and the Spasskaya Tower. His extensive watercolors of the ancient buildings of the Kremlin were published as prints in 1855, and this box is likely based in his drawings.