Lot 130: PETR PETROVICH VERESHCHAGIN

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION 1836-1886 VIEW OF VERKH-NEIVINSKY signed in Cyrillic l.r. and inscribed z.Verkh-Nivinsky l.l.; further faintly numbered N 214 on the Avantso stretcher oil on canvas 21.8 by 43.8cm, 8 1/2 by 17 1/4 in.

Acquired by the great-grandfather of the present owner in St Petersburg

Fedor Bulgakov records a series of works executed by Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin in 1877 following the route of the mining railway through the Urals, including the metallurgical factory at Verkh-Neivinsky, not far from his native city of Perm. In this delightfully detailed landscape one can just make out the steam train on the left-hand side.