Lot Essay
The present work is part of series of detailed studies painted by Vereshchagin in Munich from 1871-1873 which were based on sketches from his travels in Turkestan from 1869-1870.
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A Chinese woman
Details
Vasily Vereschagin (1842-1904)
A Chinese woman
with numbers '1103/2007a.' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
11.1/8 x 8 in. (28.3 x 20.3 cm.)
Painted in 1873
A Chinese woman
with numbers '1103/2007a.' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
11.1/8 x 8 in. (28.3 x 20.3 cm.)
Painted in 1873
Provenance
Acquired from the artist by Pavel Tretyakov (1874?).
Town Gallery of Pavel and Sergei Tretyakov, Moscow.
Deaccessioned by the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow in 1932.
Acquired from the Hotel Metropol, Moscow, by the father of the previous owner in 1932.
By descent to Mr Louis A. Brunckhorst, Jr., Minnesota.
A gift from the above to the present owner in 2008.
Town Gallery of Pavel and Sergei Tretyakov, Moscow.
Deaccessioned by the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow in 1932.
Acquired from the Hotel Metropol, Moscow, by the father of the previous owner in 1932.
By descent to Mr Louis A. Brunckhorst, Jr., Minnesota.
A gift from the above to the present owner in 2008.
Literature
Catalogue of the Town Gallery of Pavel and Sergei Tretyakov, Moscow,
1893, no. 906.
Catalogue of the Town Gallery of Pavel and Sergei Tretyakov, Moscow,
1898, no. 1103.
F. Bulgakov, Vereschagin i ego proizvedenia [Vereshchagin and his works], St Petersburg, 1896, listed p. 67.
N. G. Galkinoi (ed.), Perepiska V.V. Vereshchagina i P.M. Tretiakova, 1874-1898 [Correspondence between V. V. Vereshchagin and P. M. Tretyakov, 1874-1898], Moscow, 1963, listed p. 118, no. 36.
Exhibition catalogue, Ia. V. Bruk (ed.), Vasilii Vasil'evich
Vereshchagin v Tretiakovskoi Galeree [in the Tretyakov Gallery], Moscow, 1992. listed p. 65, no. 302.
T.A. Lykova, et. al., Pavel i Sergei Tretiakovy: Zhizn', kollektsiia muzei [Life, Collection, Museum], Moscow, 2006, p. 471, listed p. 126, no. 1103.
1893, no. 906.
Catalogue of the Town Gallery of Pavel and Sergei Tretyakov, Moscow,
1898, no. 1103.
F. Bulgakov, Vereschagin i ego proizvedenia [Vereshchagin and his works], St Petersburg, 1896, listed p. 67.
N. G. Galkinoi (ed.), Perepiska V.V. Vereshchagina i P.M. Tretiakova, 1874-1898 [Correspondence between V. V. Vereshchagin and P. M. Tretyakov, 1874-1898], Moscow, 1963, listed p. 118, no. 36.
Exhibition catalogue, Ia. V. Bruk (ed.), Vasilii Vasil'evich
Vereshchagin v Tretiakovskoi Galeree [in the Tretyakov Gallery], Moscow, 1992. listed p. 65, no. 302.
T.A. Lykova, et. al., Pavel i Sergei Tretiakovy: Zhizn', kollektsiia muzei [Life, Collection, Museum], Moscow, 2006, p. 471, listed p. 126, no. 1103.
Exhibited
Paris, Galulois editorial office, December 1881.
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