HAU, Edward Petrovich
(b. 1807, Revel, d. 1887, Moscow)

The Room of the German School in the New Hermitage

1860
Watercolour on paper, 303 x 328 mm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

A place of honour among the works of 16th- to 18th-century German painting in this hall was allotted to Mengs's monumental canvas The Judgment of Paris (at the top of the right-hand wall), bought from the artist's studio after his death at Catherine II's request.




© Web Gallery of Art, created by Emil Krén and Daniel Marx.