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Ivan Ivanovitch Shchukin, Chtchoukine or Stchoukine ( Иван Иванович Щукин; 23 November 1869 - 15 January 1908) was a Russian writer and patron of the arts. He was son of Ivan Shchukin (1818-1890) and a younger brother of the collectors Pyotr and
(Le Carreau de la BULAC), 5 March 2018
Ivan Ivanovitch Shchukin, Chtchoukine or Stchoukine ( Иван Иванович Щукин; 23 November 1869 - 15 January 1908) was a Russian writer and patron of the arts. He was son of Ivan Shchukin (1818-1890) and a younger brother of the collectors Pyotr and Sergei Shchukin
Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin (; 10 January 1936) was a Russian businessman who became an art collector, mainly of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
Early life and family
Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin was born on in Moscow, one of ten c ...
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Life
He was born inMoscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...
to a family of well-to-do merchants. After finishing his secondary schooling at the "Tsarevitch Nicolas" school and his legal studies at Moscow State University
Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...
, he moved to Paris in 1893. There he became a Russian language tutor at the École des Langues Orientales
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (; ), abbreviated as INALCO, is a French Grand Etablissement with a specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. Its coverage spans languages of Central Europ ...
until 1897
Events
January
* January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City.
* January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedit ...
From 1897
Events
January
* January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City.
* January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedit ...
to 1908
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Events
January
* January ...
he was history professor at the ' Université nouvelle de Bruxelles (Institut des hautes études).
In 1907
Events
January
* January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Moment magnitude scale, Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.
February
* February 9 – The "Mud March (suffragists), Mud March", the ...
, he gave part of his library to the Bibliothèque des langues orientales. He collected impressionist paintings and Spanish old masters In his home at 91, avenue de Wagram
The Avenue de Wagram is a street in the 8th and 17th arrondissements of Paris, extending from the Place de Wagram to the Place Charles de Gaulle (formerly ''Place de l'Étoile'', and the site of the Arc de Triomphe). It is long and wide, a ...
he held a salon
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Common meanings
* Beauty salon
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frequented by Auguste Rodin
François Auguste René Rodin (; ; 12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a u ...
, Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (, ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is e ...
, Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; ; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French people, French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, fe ...
, Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon; ; 20 April 18406 July 1916) was a French Symbolist painting, Symbolist draftsman, printmaker, and painter.
Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, Redon worked almost exc ...
, Joris-Karl Huysmans
Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (, ; 5 February 1848 – 12 May 1907) was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans (, variably abbreviated as J. K. or J.-K.). He is most famous for the novel (1884, pub ...
, Paul Durand-Ruel
Paul Durand-Ruel (; 31 October 1831 – 5 February 1922) was a French art dealer associated with the Impressionists and the Barbizon School. Being the first to support artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, he ...
, Anton Tchékhov, Dimitri Merejkovski, Maximilian Volochine, Igor Grabar
Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (, 25 March 1871 – 16 May 1960) was a Russian Post-Impressionist painter, publisher, restorer and historian of art. Grabar, descendant of a wealthy Rusyn family, was trained as a painter by Ilya Repin in Saint Pe ...
, Constantin Balmont and Alexandre Benois
Alexandre (Alexander) Nikolayevich Benois (; Salmina-Haskell, Larissa. ''Russian Paintings and Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum''. pp. 15, 23-24. Published by Ashmolean Museum, 19899 February 1960) was a Russian artist, art critic, historian, ...
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After the sale of his second collection, marked by controversies over paintings' authenticity, he died in the 17th arrondissement of Paris
The 17th arrondissement of Paris (''XVIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as ''le dix-septième'' (; "the seventeenth").
The arrondissement, known as Batignol ...
and as buried at cimetière du Montmartre. His collection and library were split up in two posthumous sales. .'Aux origines du fonds russe de la BULAC : le don ultime du mystérieux M. Stchoukine. Partie 1'(Le Carreau de la BULAC), 5 March 2018
Works
* ''Précis d'histoire du droit romain''. 1893 * ''Biron dans la gravure d'Ivan Sokolov : une page d'histoire de l'iconographie russe'' (Бирон в гравюре Ив. Соколова: страничка из истории русской иконографии). Saint Petersburg, 1893 * ''Aquarelles parisiennes : le genre et le paysage'' (Парижские акварели: Жанр и пейзаж). Fasc. 1-2. Paris, 1897 * ''Aquarelles parisiennes'' '': Récits et correspondances'' (Парижские акварели: Очерки и корреспонденции). Paris, 1901 * ''Le suicide collectif dans le raskol russe.'' Paris, 1903References