ALEXANDER KARLOVICH BEGGROV | A VIEW OF ST PETERSBURG FROM THE UNIVERSITETSKAYA EMBANKMENT

Private collection, Lille

Acquired from the above by the present owner

For many years this painting was in a private collection in Lille, where the artist is known to have spent time and painted with Alexei Bogoliubov. It was reputedly acquired from the wife of the French marine painter Amédée Rosier and still bears the trace of the inscription Rosie.. on the stretcher.