Alexander Ivanovich Pasetti "Spring landscape" 1878
Description
Oil on canvas, signed lower right in Cyrillic: "A.Pasetti 78"
Framed: 18x54 cm (22x58 cm)
Alexander Ivanovich Pasetti (1854- 1912) - A painter and photographer of Italian descent, active in the Russian Empire. He initially studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. In 1872 and 1879, he received a silver medal for his painting from the Academy. He became famous primarily as the official photographer of the Russian Tsarist court. He specialized in portrait photography and painting. He created, among other things, official portraits of members of the Imperial family (including Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna) and the Russian aristocracy. His photographic works—including albumen prints—are now in museum collections (e.g., the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston) and regularly appear at international art auctions.
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