LUIGI OSSIPOVICH PREMAZZI (RUSSIAN-ITALIAN 1814-1891)
Rider at the Top of the Mountain, 1877
watercolor on paper
30 x 40 cm (12 x 14 3/4 in.)
signed and dated lower right and on verso

PROVENANCE
Macdougall's, London, November 28, 2012, Lot 27

LOT NOTES
Born in Milan in 1814, Luigi Premazzi was a renowned watercolorist and celebrated especially for his vedute, before moving to Saint Petersburg in 1850, where he became a teacher at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1861. While in Russia, Premazzi traveled frequently to the Caucuses and Middle East, which provided new subjects for his paintings, such as the present lot. He would often send his Caucausian watercolors to Italian exhibitions, were they were received with great acclaim and provided Italians with a glimpse of exotic lands.