The Russian passion for Dutch painting of the golden age
Subtitle: the collection of Pyotr Semenov and the art-market in St Petersburg, 1860-1910
By: By Irina Sokolova
Series: Oud Holland book series -- VOLUME 1
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004292413
Subjects: Art collections; Catalogs; Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia); Dutch Painting; Painting; Collectors and collecting; History
Work titles: Kartinnai︠a︡ galerei︠a︡ P.P. Semenova-Ti︠a︡nʹ-Shanskogo i gollandskai︠a︡ zhivopisʹ na antikvarnom rynke Peterburga
Notes: Translation with some revisions of Kartinnai︠a︡ galerei︠a︡ P.P. Semenova-Ti︠a︡nʹ-Shanskogo i gollandskai︠a︡ zhivopisʹ na antikvarnom rynke Peterburga [The Picture Gallery of Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky and Dutch Paintings on the St Petersburg Antiquarian Market], St Petersburg,   2009, which was itself a revised version of a thesis presented for the Russian academic degree of Doctor of Cultural Studies at St Petersburg State University in 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pyotr Semenov and His Age; title: Aspects of Artistic Life in St Petersburg during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Private Collections Open to the Public, Exhibitions and Auctions; title: St Petersburg's Collectors and Antiquarians 1860-90; title: The Nineteenth Century. A New View of Dutch Painting and its Impact on Russia; title: Pyotr Semenov and Western Experts: Wilhelm Bode, Abraham Bredius and Cornelis Hofstede de Groot; title: The Semenov Gallery on Vasilyevsky Island: Its Composition and Character; title: The Sale of the Collection to the Imperial Hermitage; title: The Semenov Collection in the Hermitage: Fate Scatters the Paintings.