A Russian bathhouse: men and women bathing in the steam and invigorating each other with bundles of twigs. Colour aquatint by E.M. Korneev, 1811/1813.

[Paris] : Imprimerie de Colas (Treuttel et Würtz), [1812]

1 print : aquatint, printed in colours ; sheet 39.5 x 49.6 cm

<Russian> Russkai︠a︡ ban︠︡ia. <Italic> Le bain russe. <Russian> Risoval i graviroval E. Korneev. <Italic> Dessiné et gravé par E. Karnejeff.

On the painter and printmaker Emelʹian Mikhaĭlovich Korneev (Kornieev, Kornjejeff etc.) see A.A. Polovtsova (ed.), Russkii biograficheskii slovarʹume K, St Petersburg 1903, p. 267, and N.N. Goncharova, E.M. Korneev, Moscow 1987. However, he is not included in the dictionaries of artists by Thieme-Becker and by Bénézit, nor in J. Milner, A dictionary of Russian and Soviet artists 1420-1970, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1993

Attributed by the previous owner to a different artist, Matwej Iwanowitsch Kornjejeff or Kornejeff, who was born on 6 August 1774, became a member of the St Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1799, and died around 1825

N.N. Goncharova, E.M. Korneev, Moscow 1987, p. 192, no. 16, and pl. 71

Wellcome Collection 38577i