Playing Cards Satin

Adolf Iosifovich Charlemagne - battle, historical and genre painter. He received a general education at the school at the St. Petersburg Lutheran Church of St. Peter. In 1848 he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied historical painting under the guidance of F. A. Bruni, then battle painting in the class of B. P. Villevalde. In 1859 he was awarded the title of Academician of Painting for the painting Suvorov's Last Night in Switzerland. In 1860-61. Charlemagne received an order from the Alexander Manufactory card factory to develop sketches for playing cards and created drawings for four decks, of which the so-called. "Satin" playing cards. The drawings for this deck were based on the habitual for Russian society of the 19th century. cards that looked like popular prints, made in Russia for many decades according to the French model. Soon after the creation of new sketches, Charlemagne received the title of artist of His Imperial Majesty.