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Lot 0018
Fedor Kovshenkov. A Rare Russian bust of Emperor Alexander I
Estimate: 2500-3000€
Lot 0018
Fedor Kovshenkov. A Rare Russian bust of Emperor Alexander I
Estimate: 2500-3000€Bust of Emperor Alexander I
Russian Empire, St. Petersburg, 1827
Author: Fedor Ivanovich Kovshenkov (1785–1850)
Bronze, casting, patination
Dimensions: 19.5 x 8.5 x 8.5 cm.This finely executed bust of Emperor Alexander I was created by Fedor Kovshenkov, a master bronzeworker who had once been a serf. In 1822, the Emperor himself recognized Kovshenkov’s talent and freed him from serfdom, appointing him as a bronze master during the construction of the Kazan Cathedral.
In 1826, as an expression of gratitude, Kovshenkov produced his first bust of Alexander I, and he returned to this theme multiple times throughout his career. Several examples in bronze and cast iron are preserved today in the State Russian Museum, alongside his busts of Emperor Nicholas I and Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich. A comparable piece is held in the State Literary-Memorial and Natural Museum-Reserve of Alexander Pushkin “Boldino” in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Fedor Ivanovich Kovshenkov (1785–1850)
Originally a serf, Kovshenkov’s exceptional skill in bronze chasing brought him to the attention of Emperor Alexander I, who liberated him. He went on to create portrait busts of members of the imperial family and other distinguished figures, establishing his reputation within the St. Petersburg artistic milieu of the first half of the 19th century.Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3000€
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Lot 0013
Evgeny Lanceray. A Russian bronze composition “Little Kyrgyz or Bashkir the herdsman”
Estimate: 2000-3000€
Lot 0013
Evgeny Lanceray. A Russian bronze composition “Little Kyrgyz or Bashkir the herdsman”
Estimate: 2000-3000€Evgeny Lanceray. Little Kyrgyz (or Bashkir Herdsman)
Model 1879
Bronze. Dimensions: 19 × 23 × 10 cm
St. Petersburg, late 19th centuryThis bronze composition by Evgeny Lanceray represents a mounted Bashkir herdsman, shown in dynamic motion, holding a lasso in his hand. The work belongs to Lanceray’s celebrated ethnographic series, inspired by his extensive travels across Russia and its borderlands.
The model was created in 1879 but reflects impressions from an earlier journey to Bashkiria in the early 1870s. Like many of Lanceray’s works, The Bashkir Herdsman combines vivid ethnographic detail with the sculptor’s gift for narrative and movement, making it one of his best-known works of small-scale realist sculpture.
During the sculptor’s lifetime and in the late 19th century, the composition was cast at the Chopin and Shtange foundries in St. Petersburg. In the early 20th century, it was also reproduced without foundry marks, both by large firms such as the Moscow workshop of A. M. Postnikov and by smaller private foundries in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Starting price: 1500€
Estimate: 2000-3000€
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Lot 0003
Russian Gilt Bronze Paperweight “Circassian with the Pipe”
Estimate: 300-450€
Lot 0003
Russian Gilt Bronze Paperweight “Circassian with the Pipe”
Estimate: 300-450€Russian gilt bronze paperweight. Circassian with a Pipe
Second half of the 19th century
8 × 24 × 7 cmThis finely cast gilt bronze paperweight represents a reclining Circassian figure, dressed in traditional attire, holding a rifle and a pipe. Objects of this kind were popular decorative desk accessories in 19th-century Russia, reflecting both interest in the Caucasus region and the era’s fascination with exotic and ethnographic themes.
Starting price: 250€
Estimate: 300-450€
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Lot 0015
Russian Bronze Composition “Dancing Peasant”
Estimate: 600-800€
Lot 0015
Russian Bronze Composition “Dancing Peasant”
Estimate: 600-800€Dancing Peasant
Russian bronze composition
Mid-19th century
Height: 13 cmThis small bronze figure depicts a peasant caught mid-step in a lively dance, his posture animated and expressive. Works of this type reflected the 19th-century fascination with scenes from folk life, capturing the vitality and humor of rural traditions in miniature sculptural form.
Starting price: 500€
Estimate: 600-800€