Demidov collection - Palais de San-Donato Catalogue

The Demidov collection was a collection of artworks gathered by the Russian industrialist Count Nikolay Nikitich Demidov and considerably expanded by his second son Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato. It was mainly on show at their

Villa San Donato The Villa San Donato is a Palladian palace built by Russian industrialist Nikolay Demidov on 42 hectares of marshland to the north of Florence at Polverosa which he had bought from the Catholic church, after he was made Russia's ambassador to the ...

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, in which a private museum of 14 rooms was devoted to them. It was dispersed at sales in Paris in 1863 on 21 February and 3 March 1870 and at the Villa in March 1880.

Objects

Paintings

* Camille Corot, ''Orpheus''. *

Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: Britis ...

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Christopher Columbus and his son at La Rábida
', hst. 90,3 x 118 cm, commissioned by Anatole, 1838. Washington, D.C.,

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Paul Delaroche Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subjects from English ...

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The Execution of Lady Jane Grey ''The Execution of Lady Jane Grey'' is an oil painting by Paul Delaroche, completed in 1833, which is now in the National Gallery in London. It was enormously popular in the decades after it was painted, but in the 20th century realist historica ...

'', acquired by Anatole at the 1834

Paris Salon The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

National Gallery, London The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director o ...

* 16th century German school,
Portrait of a woman
', hsp. 44,2 x 31,7 cm, acquired by Nicolay. Washington, D.C.,

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François Marius Granet François Marius Granet (17 December 1775 – 21 November 1849) was a French painter. Biography François Marius Granet was born on 17 December 1775 in Aix-en-Provence; his father was a small builder. As a boy his strong desires led his parents ...

, ''The Death of Poussin'', acquired by Anatole in 1833. *

Hans Memling Hans Memling (also spelled Memlinc; c. 1430 – 11 August 1494) was a painter active in Flanders, who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. He was born in the Middle Rhine region and probably spent his childhood in Mainz. He ...

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The chalice of Saint John the Evangelist
', hsp. 30,2 x 23 cm, c. 1470–1475, acquired by Nicolay. Washington, D.C.,

. * Hans Memling,
Saint Veronica
', hsp. 30,3 x 22,8 cm, c. 1470–1475, acquired by Nicolay. Washington, D.C.,

. * Rubens, ''Landscape with milkmaids and cows'', c. 1616. Liechtenstein Museum,

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Gerard Terborch Gerard ter Borch (; December 1617 – 8 December 1681), also known as Gerard Terburg (), was a Dutch genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age. He influenced fellow Dutch painters Gabriel Metsu, Gerrit Dou, Eglon van der Neer and Johanne ...

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'', 1648.

(on long-term loan to

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, Amsterdam). *

Diego Velázquez Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptized June 6, 1599August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of th ...

, ''Philip IV''.

. * Jan Vermeer van Delft, ''The geographer'', c. 1668, acquired in 1872 by

Paul Pavlovitch Demidov Count Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato (russian: Павел Павлович Демидов; 9 October 1839, Frankfurt am Main / Bad Kissingen – 26 January 1885, Pratolino, Florence) was a Russian industrialist, jurist, ...

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Decorative arts

Pierre-Philippe Thomire Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751–1843) a French sculptor, was the most prominent ''bronzier'', or producer of ornamental patinated and gilt-bronze objects and furniture mounts of the First French Empire. His fashionable neoclassical and Empire ...

, ''The Demidov Vase'' (1819), in the

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in a gold mount, 171.5m high, commissioned by Nicolay.

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.Monumental vase
lapidary work, early 19th century; pedestal and mounts by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, 1819. *

Clodion Claude Michel (20 December 1738 – 29 March 1814), known as Clodion, was a French sculptor in the Rococo style, especially noted for his works in marble, bronze, & terracotta. Life He was born in Nancy to Anne Adam and Thomas Michel, an un ...

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Monumental urn
', marble, 131,5 x 97,1 cm, 1782, acquired by Anatole. Washington, D.C.,

. * Clodion,
Monumental urn
', marble, 132 x 97 cm, 1782, acquired by Anatole. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art. *Arms and armour, now in the

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in London, UK. *The Polish coronation sword '' Szczerbiec''.

Sculptures

Lorenzo Bartolini Lorenzo Bartolini (Prato, 7 January 1777 Florence, 20 January 1850) was an Italian sculptor who infused his neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturalistic detail, while he drew inspiration from the sculpture of the Florentine ...

, ''La Table aux Amours'', also known as the ''Demidov Table'', marble, 137,2 cm x 162,6 cm, commissioned by Anatole in 1845.

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Antonio Canova Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists,. his sculpture was inspired by the Baroque and the cl ...

, ''Madame Mère'', marble.

References

Sale catalog
on archive.org

External links

* {{Commonscat-inline, House of Demidov's collections, Demidov Collection Former private collections *