"Stroganoff"
2000-02-19 until 2000-05-31
Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR, USA United States of America

Stroganoff is one of the most familiar names in Russian history, that of an extraordinary family whose impact over five centuries included aggressive entrepreneurship as well as social vision and patronage of the arts. In February 2000, an exhibition of approximately 250 treasures collected by the Stroganoff family will make its international debut at the Portland Art Museum.

The exhibition includes icons and antiquities, palace furnishings and paintings of the greatest European masters from Botticelli to Poussin. These will be arrayed as they were in the Stroganoff Palace, one of the grandest 18th century buildings in St. Petersburg. The exhibition, organized by the Portland Art Museum, will be shown at only two venues in the United States, as well as at the Musee des arts des coratifs, Palais du Louvre, and at the world-famous Hermitage Museum. Baroness Helene de Ludinghausen, a Stroganoff descendent, has guided Portland Art Museum director John Buchanan, through the labyrinth of galleries and reserves of The State Hermitage and The State Russian Museums to identify works of art acquired, sponsored or commissioned by members of her family throughout five centuries. Russian curators and museum directors have joined in the effort to bring together a visual saga of a family s involvement in art.

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