Lot 22: ALEXEI PETROVICH BOGOLIUBOV | Road Along the Shore of Øresund at Night

oil on canvas

31 by 24cm, 12 1/4 by 9 1/2 in.

oil on canvas

The canvas has been cut and laid on another canvas and the original tacking edges are still visible along the left and right. There is a light covering of surface dirt and the varnish has discoloured. An extremely fine web of craquelure is visible throughout the composition. Examination under UV light reveals no apparent signs of retouching. Held in a gold painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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‘Catalogue of Paintings Belonging to Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Tsesarevna’, Veliki knyaz’ Aleksandr Aleksandrovich: Sbornik dokumentov, Moscow, 2002, pp.638-639, no.13 listed; p.675 listed

Commissioned by Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich, the future Tsar Alexander III, in Denmark in 1867
Presented by Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich to his wife, Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna, Christmas 1867
Collection of Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna at Anichkov Palace, until early 1870s
Imperial Collection at Alexander Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, mid 1870s
Alexander Palace Museum, until 1931
Acquired by a Swedish engineer from the Gosfond commission in Leningrad, circa 1931