salon painting

[Margaret Anne Samu]

Dear Sara,

If you can find a book or exhibition catalogue of watercolors and drawings from the period, you will probably find a lot of salon images--not re-creations, but informal works made on the spot.  For instance:
Evgeniia Petrova, Drawing and watercolours in Russian culture : the first half of the nineteenth century. Saint Petersburg : Palace Editions, 2005.

There are also art and cultural history books "from Pushkin's time" that have such pictures. This is a gorgeous album that focuses on portraits--some of them made at salons:
Lit︠s︡a pushkinskoĭ ėpokhi v risunkakh i akvareli︠a︡kh : kamernyĭ portret pervoĭ poloviny devi︠a︡tnadt︠s︡atogo veka / I︠U︡.M. Lotman, N.A. Marchenko, E.V. Pavlova.  Moskva : Iskusstvo, 2000.

Best regards,
Margaret

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Margaret Samu
Ph.D. Candidate in Art History
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
1 East 78th Street
New York, NY  10075

----- Original Message -----
From: Sara Pankenier Weld <spankenier at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:42 pm
Subject: [SEELANGS] salon painting
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu

> Dear colleagues,
> I will be teaching Pavlova's <Dvoinaia zhizn'> as part of a
> nineteenth-century literature survey course and thought I would try to
> recreate a literary salon environment for our discussion of the novel. 
> To
> that end, I am trying to come up with a Russian painting of a
> nineteenth-century salon or such setting that I could project in the
> background. Any ideas?
> 
> The best I have come up with so far is Bashkirtseva's "L'atelier Julian,"
> since it is of the right era and represents women's craft, but I 
> wonder if I
> can do better. I welcome your suggestions.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Sara Pankenier
> 
> Visiting Lecturer
> Department of Russian
> 421 Founders Hall
> Wellesley College
> Wellesley, MA 02481
> 
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