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Title: Peintres Et Sculpteurs
Description: Moscow: N.p. 1892. Plate VI from a set of twenty loose black and white prints originally sold as a set in a portfolio, printed in Moscow in 1892. This untitled set of large, high quality photographic prints (each measures 25" X 18") commemorates some unidentified imperial autograph collection, with each print picturing a montage of autographs in specific collecting fields. Subject matters represented include many of the classic areas of autograph collecting: scientists (several different), artists, musicians, actors, opera performers, ballet stars, writers and poets, statesmen and more. While the signed photographs (usually cartes-de-visite), letters and other documents depicted in each montage are international in scope, there tend to be more Russian (go figure!) and French persons. "Peintres et sculpteurs" is a charming heavy stock print, a montage showing thirteen cartes-de-visite (either signed or with cut signatures or notes draped across) of sculptors Gumbuch, Tchigeoff, and Fremiet, and painters Leighton, Newreff, Detaille, Polenoff, Kiwchenko, Sourikoff, Chavanne, Gue, Werechtchaguine, and Kisseleff. These images have been artfully arranged hodgepodge-style atop a background of a watercolor nature scene, with a palette and brushes poking out prominently at upper right. Very good. Minor soiling, and several quite small and discreet edge tears. Overall quite handsome and striking, with large, untrimmed margins. These pre-revolutionary prints from the heyday of the czars -- all in handsome, clean condition -- are seldom encountered in this country, and come direct from our contact. All signatures depicted on these images are, remember, photographic reproductions of their signatures -- not authentic original signatures. .

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