Adolf Ignatevich Ladurner

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich Taking an Oath of Allegiance in the Georgievsky Hall in the Winter Palace, 8th September 1843

Auction Closed

November 30, 02:40 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from a Private Collection

Adolf Ignatevich Ladurner

1798 - 1855

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich Taking an Oath of Allegiance in the Georgievsky Hall in the Winter Palace, 8th September 1843

oil on canvas

Canvas: 34 by 51cm, 13½ by 20½in.

Framed: 49.5 by 66.5cm, 19½ by 26in.

Sotheby's London, Russian Paintings, Drawings, Watercolours and Sculpture 1750-1910, 14 May 1980, lot 32
Christie's London, Imperial and Post-Revolutionary Russian Art, 6 October 1988, lot 415
Collection of Francis Gadan
Sotheby's London, Icons, Russian Pictures and Works of Art, 15 June 1995, lot 26
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

The painting depicts the ceremony of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich (1827-1892) taking an oath of allegiance in the Georgievsky Hall of the Winter Palace, also known as the Great Throne Room, on 8 September 1843. In the centre of the composition standing near the banner, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich is pictured wearing the blue sash of the Order of St Andrew the First-Called. To the right behind him, Emperor Nicholas I can be seen alongside Grand Duke Alexander Nikolaevich (the future Emperor Alexander II), standing at his right side, both wearing an identical sash. Standing near the throne is Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, wearing a white dress with the same blue sash of the Order of St Andrew.

The present work is one of the earliest known depictions of the Georgievsky Hall after its reconstruction in the early 1840s by the renowned architect Vasily Stasov following the great fire of 1837.

We are grateful to Sergey Podstanitsky for providing additional cataloguing information.