拍品专文
The trailing anthemion-cast mounts on this piece are stylistically related to a sofa executed by Ivan Iossifovitch Bauman (active 1815-1824) after designs by Karl Ivanovitch (Carlo) Rossi (1775-1849) now in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum (Inventory no. 753), St. Petersburg.
Born in Naples, Carlo Rossi came to Russia with the Italian architect Vicenzo Brenna who was responsible for many of the early interiors at Pavlovsk Palace. Rossi worked under Brenna initially, but then set off on his own in the Moscow area, rebuilding the Putyevoi Palace at Tver, where he designed his first furniture. By 1814, he had returned to St. Petersburg to work on Pavlovsk Palace, and in 1816 was appointed court architect. Rossi finished Pavlovsk, and designed interiors for the Anitchkov, Yelagin, and Winter Palaces, for which he designed furniture in this style, sometimes in painted giltwood, sometimes in parcel-gilt against a natural wood background. This sofa, with its gilt-bronze mounts against a Karelian Birch ground, points to the influence of French tastes in 1820's, but still draws on the influence of Rossi's designs.
Born in Naples, Carlo Rossi came to Russia with the Italian architect Vicenzo Brenna who was responsible for many of the early interiors at Pavlovsk Palace. Rossi worked under Brenna initially, but then set off on his own in the Moscow area, rebuilding the Putyevoi Palace at Tver, where he designed his first furniture. By 1814, he had returned to St. Petersburg to work on Pavlovsk Palace, and in 1816 was appointed court architect. Rossi finished Pavlovsk, and designed interiors for the Anitchkov, Yelagin, and Winter Palaces, for which he designed furniture in this style, sometimes in painted giltwood, sometimes in parcel-gilt against a natural wood background. This sofa, with its gilt-bronze mounts against a Karelian Birch ground, points to the influence of French tastes in 1820's, but still draws on the influence of Rossi's designs.