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Oskar Schmerling, "Caucasian Rider" Caucasian rider with a rifle, riding across a plain overgrown with tall grass, a mountain massif indicated in the background, painting executed with a pointed brush in friendly colours, oil on canvas, signed "Oscar Schmerling" at lower right, dated "[18]93", as well as illegibly inscribed(?) "BÜCKAN", enclosed on the reverse in an envelope: handwritten letter from the artist to the grandfather of the former owner of the work, dated 1894, further handwritten annotations from the latter regarding the provenance of the work, relined canvas, minor losses in the margins, somewhat soiled, framed, folded dimensions approx. 21.5 x 14 cm. Artist information: Georgian painter and graphic artist of German origin (1867 Tiflis to 1938 Tiflis), 1884 entry into the engraving department of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, specialising in battle painting, 1902 to 1916 director of the School of Painting and Sculpture in the Caucasian Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts, professor at the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts, his students included Lado Gudiashvili, Ketevan Magalashvili, Alexander Tsimakuridze and Mikheil Chiaureli, source: Wikipedia.

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Oskar Schmerling, "Caucasian Rider" Caucasian rider with a rifle, riding across a plain overgrown with tall grass, a mountain massif indicated in the background, painting executed with a pointed brush in friendly colours, oil on canvas, signed "Oscar Schmerling" at lower right, dated "[18]93", as well as illegibly inscribed(?) "BÜCKAN", enclosed on the reverse in an envelope: handwritten letter from the artist to the grandfather of the former owner of the work, dated 1894, further handwritten annotations from the latter regarding the provenance of the work, relined canvas, minor losses in the margins, somewhat soiled, framed, folded dimensions approx. 21.5 x 14 cm. Artist information: Georgian painter and graphic artist of German origin (1867 Tiflis to 1938 Tiflis), 1884 entry into the engraving department of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, specialising in battle painting, 1902 to 1916 director of the School of Painting and Sculpture in the Caucasian Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts, professor at the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts, his students included Lado Gudiashvili, Ketevan Magalashvili, Alexander Tsimakuridze and Mikheil Chiaureli, source: Wikipedia.

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