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The Congress
of Vienna
Jean Godefroy
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View of
the Winter Palace from beneath the Arch of the General
Staff Building
Karl Beggrow
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A Russian
Officer Parting with a Parisian Woman
Louis Philibert Debucourt
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A Colonel
of the Life Guards Lancier (Uhlan Regiment)
Alexander Sauerweid
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A long corridor separated the apartments of Count Nesselrode from
the state rooms and the apartments of the Countess. The display
here features some one hundred engravings by French and Russian
artists from the first quarter of the 19th century in which the
Empire period is reflected with vivid originality. Cityscapes of
St Petersburg and Paris can be seen in the celebrated views of Karl
Beggrow and his French contemporaries. Portraits of Alexander I,
Napoleon, Josephine and Marie-Louise of Austria are recorded in
the engravings of Thomas Wright, August Boucher-Desnouer, Pierre
Audoin and Charles Normand. The lithographs by Alexander Sauerweid,
depicting the military ranks in the Russian army, were commissioned
by Emperor Alexander I. The genre scenes engraved by Jean-Francois
Bosio convey the viewer into the untroubled world of an affluent
French family. The fashion plate depicting new trends in clothing
was popular in France and is extensively represented here by exquisite
hand-coloured engravings from the Le Bon Genre series by Georges
Jacques Gatine.
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