Views of Crimea
Carl Von Kugelgen
“Carl Kugelgen painted many landscapes, and executed many drawings of the scenery of Russia, both in the northern and southern provinces. He made two journeys in the Crimea for the express purpose of painting its seenery; the first journey was made in 1804 by the desire of the Emperor Paul, the second by the express permission of the Emperor Alexander, in 1806. Thirty oil paintings and sixty sepia drawings, part of the fruits of the second journey, were purchased by the emperor, and placed together in a hall in Kammoi Ostrof. In 1818 Alexander sent Kugelgen for a similar purpose into Finland, of which country he painted fifty-five pictures, which also were purchased by the emperor. Kugelgen executed in all 171 pictures and 290 finished drawings. He died at Reval in 1832″.
The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long].
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View of the Valley near the Village of Mshatka
Sepia and pencil on paper, 31.6×41 cm
1824
Series “Views of Crimea”
Karaite Cemetery at Chufut-Kale
Sepia and pencil on paper, 31.6×41 cm
1824
Series “Views of Crimea”
View from a Grotto of Inkerman
Sepia and pencil on paper, 31.6×41 cm
1824
Series “Views of Crimea”
View near Alupka
Sepia and pencil on paper, 31.6×41 cm
1824
Series “Views of Crimea”
View of Alupka
Sepia and pencil on paper, 31.6×41 cm
1824
Series “Views of Crimea”
View of Bakhchisarai
Sepia and pencil on paper, 31.6×41 cm
1824
Series “Views of Crimea”
View of Mukhalatka
Sepia and pencil on paper, 31.6×41 cm
1824
Series “Views of Crimea”
View of the Valley of Karalese
Sepia and pencil on paper, 31.6×41 cm
1824
Series “Views of Crimea”
View of Cliffs near Kachikalen
Sepia and pencil on paper, 31.6×41 cm
1824
Series “Views of Crimea”
Johann Karl Ferdinand von Kügelgen
(6 February 1772 Bacharach–9 January 1832 Tallinn),
also known as Carl Ferdinand von Kügelgen was a landscape
and history painter, a Russian court and cabinet painter
in St. Petersburg, a member of the Royal Russian Academy
of Arts in St. Petersburg, and a member of the Royal Prussian
Academy of Arts in Berlin.
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