id: 142754 accession number: 1966.458.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.458.2 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:20.183000 Imperial Framed Miniature of Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna, 1896. Johannes Zehngraf (Russian, 1857–1908), Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Russian, 1860–1903), House of Fabergé, (Russian, 1842–1918). Jade, gold, rubies, gouache, ivory, glass; overall: 15.3 x 5 x 5 cm (6 x 1 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The India Early Minshall Collection 1966.458.2 title: Imperial Framed Miniature of Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1896 creation date earliest: 1896 creation date latest: 1896 current location: creditline: The India Early Minshall Collection copyright: --- culture: Russia, St. Petersburg, late 19th Century technique: jade, gold, rubies, gouache, ivory, glass department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Portrait Miniature find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Johannes Zehngraf (Russian, 1857–1908) - miniaturist * Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Russian, 1860–1903) - workmaster * House of Fabergé, (Russian, 1842–1918) - maker --- measurements: Overall: 15.3 x 5 x 5 cm (6 x 1 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: miniature inscribed: Zehngraf. translation: remark: inscription: Marks underneath base: 56, crossed anchors [assay mark for St. Petersburg, 1882-96]; hallmark for workmaster Mikhail Perkhin (in Cyrillic); FABERGE (in Cyrillic); scratched 54471. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). title: Fabergé in America opening date: 1996-02-12T00:00:00 Fabergé in America. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (February 12-May 5, 1996); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (organizer) (May 25-July 28, 1996); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (August 24-November 2, 1996); New Orleans Museum of Art (December 7, 1996-February 8, 1997); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-May 11, 1997). title: Fabergé Loan opening date: 2008-09-15T00:00:00 Fabergé Loan. Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN (organizer) (September 15, 2008-June 30, 2009). title: Fabergé: Romance to Revolution opening date: 2021-11-20T05:00:00 Fabergé: Romance to Revolution. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (November 20, 2021-May 8, 2022) https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/faberge. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Charity Exhibition of Fabergé Artistic Objects, Old Miniatures, and Snuff Boxes (Выставка художественных произведений К. Фаберже в особняке П.П. фон Дервиза, Санкт-Петербург). Baron von Dervis Mansion, Saint Petersburg, Russia (March 1902). --- PROVENANCE Tsar Nicholas II [1868-1918] and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna [1872-1918], purchased from the maker, December 18, 1896 (by tsar), Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russia date: 1896-1918 footnotes: *
Imperial provenance discovered in Russian state ledgers by Kieran McCarthy, Wartski, London, 2019.
citations: Provisional Russian Government, Kremlin, Moscow date: 1918-1922 footnotes: citations: (The Schaffer Collection of Russian Imperial Art Treasures [A La Vielle Russie], New York, NY) date: ?-1948 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This painted miniature is one of two miniatures that were personal gifts from the tsar and tsarina to one another in 1896, a year after the birth of their firstborn child, Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna. The tsar gave the miniature of himself to the tsarina, and she gave the one of the child to the tsar. digital description: The giving of miniatures had long been a common practice among wealthy and aristocratic families by the time Faberge began combining portraits with his richly decorated frames. The Russian imperial family delighted in having these personal mementos and commissioned many different miniatures to place around their private apartments, providing a warm family atmosphere in an otherwise highly formal existence. wall description: The giving of miniatures had long been a common practice among wealthy and aristocratic families by the time Faberge began combining portraits with his richly decorated frames. The Russian imperial family delighted in having these personal mementos and commissioned many different miniatures to place around their private apartments, providing a warm family atmosphere in an otherwise highly formal existence. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hawley, Henry H. Fabergé and His Contemporaries: The India Early Minshall Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 24-5, cat. 8 url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/836254532 Habsburg, Géza von, and David Park Curry. Fabergé in America. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 107, cat. 83 url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/34433639 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.458.2/1966.458.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.458.2/1966.458.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.458.2/1966.458.2_full.tif