FREDERIC REMINGTON (1861-1909)
Dragoon Officer in Street Dress and Gendarme, St. Petersburg: A Pair of Works
Dragoon Officer in Street Dress, signed and inscribed 'Frederic Remington./-Berlin-' (lower right)--inscribed '- dragoon office street dress.' (lower center); Gendarme, St. Petersburg, signed 'Frederic Remington' (lower right)--partially inscribed 'Gendarme St. Petersb/sketch from hotel/ms "why we left Ru" (upper right)
each, ink, wash and gouache on paperboard
Dragoon Officer in Street Dress, 17 ¾ x 9 in. (45.1 x 22.9 cm.), image; 21 ¾ x 11 ⅛ in. (55.2 x 28.3 cm.), overall
Gendarme, St. Petersburg, 17 ¾ x 9 in. (45.1 x 22.9 cm.), image; 21 ¾ x 12 in. (55.2 x 30.5 cm.), overall
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PROVENANCE
Ernst and France Gregory Tyler, New York.
Mr. & Mrs. Marion Sims Wyeth, Katonah, New York, gift from the above, 1948.
By descent to the present owner.

LITERATURE
Gendarme, St. Petersburg, P. Bigelow, "Why We Left Russia," Harper's Magazine, vol. LXXXVI, no. 512, December 1892, p. 303, illustrated.
Dragoon Officer in Street Dress , P. Bigelow, "Side Lights on the German Soldier," Harper's Magazine, vol. LXXXVII, no. 518, November 1893, p. 214, illustrated.
P.H. Hassrick, M.J. Webster, Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, vol. I, Cody, Wyoming, 1996, pp. 446, 457, nos. 1549, 1587, engravings illustrated.