Lot 96: ANDREJ KARELIN (1837-1906)

Woman with child by a window, c.1880
albumen print
printed credit, series title 'Artistic Album', studio location 'Novgorod' and annotation 'Photograph from life' in Russian on mount
9 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. (23.5 x 17.2cm.)

D. Elliott (ed.), Photography in Russia 1840-1940, Berlin, 1992, pp.102-107, pls.83-91, for other examples from the same series.

The Russian artist Karelin opened his own photography and painting portrait studio in 1869. He made landscape and genre studies, as well as commissioned portraits and received awards from exhibitions in Vienna, Paris and Edinburgh, as well as in his native land. Albums of his photographs are held by the State Historical Museum, Moscow.

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