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The Study of Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna
Josef Sotira1835
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
This view depicts a room with a coffered, barrel-vaulted ceiling and furniture in the Russian taste (1820-1830). On display are a large collection of paintings, two marble sculptures of the Crouching Venus flanking the window, and potted plants, urns and vases. The Czarina is seated at her writing table at the far end of the room.
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- Title: The Study of Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna
- Creator: Josef Sotira
- Creator Lifespan: 1830/1840
- Date Created: 1835
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Thaw Collection
- Medium: Brush and watercolor and gouache, pen and ink on off- white wove paper
- Signed: Lower right, in white: Sotira/ 1835 [date effaced]
- Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Popoff & Cie, Paris
- Paper Support: Off-white wove paper
- Exhibitions: New York, NY, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection, August 12, 2008-January 25, 2009.New York, NY,Frick Museum. An Album of Nineteenth-Century Interiors: Watercolors from Two Private Collections, 1992.Oneonta, New York, Hartwick College. 18th and 19th Century Watercolors of European Domestic Interiors, 1987, No. 11 [Illus.].New York,NY, The Pierpont Morgan Library. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw, Part II, 1985, No. 68 [Illus.].
- Dimensions: Old frame H x W x D: 50.8 x 66.7 x 8.3 cm (20 x 26 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)Sheet: 27.4 x 40.7 cm (10 13/16 x 16 in.)
- Bibliography: Gail S. Davidson et al., House Proud, Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection (New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2008), 63, fig. 52; 88, pl. 16.Charlotte Gere, An Album of Nineteenth-Century Interiors: Watercolors from Two Private Collections (New York: The Frick Collection, 1992), 48-49 [Illus.].
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