The Russian Passion for Dutch Painting of the Golden Age: The Collection of Pyotr Semenov and the Art-Market in St Petersburg, 1860-1910

by Irina Sokolova

In The Russian Passion for Dutch Painting of the Golden Age, Irina Sokolova presents the collection of paintings created by Pyotr Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky (1827-1914), an outstanding scholar and Russian statesman during the era of liberal reforms in Russia. Not only did this man of great erudition assemble a unique body of more than 700 works by Dutch and Flemish masters, but he pushed hard to ensure that it entered the Imperial Hermitage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004292411
• ISBN13: 9789004292413
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 9.9"