RUSSIAN AND WESTERN EUROPEAN DECORATIVE ART

A RUSSIAN OIL ON CANVAS PAINTING BY RIZZONI, 19TH C.

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Original Russian oil on canvas painting depicting two cardinals playing chess in a Roman interior. Signed and dated “A. Rizzoni 1891” (in Cyrillic). Alexander Antonovich Rizzoni (1836 – 1902) – Russian genre artist and portrait painter, academician, professor of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

Dimensions: Image size: 19 3/4 x 23 3/4 in., (50.3 x 60.4 cm.) Frame: 21 1/2 x 25 5/8 in., (54.5 x 65.2 cm.)

Condition: Varnished