The Room of the German School in the New Hermitage

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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.

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The Room of the German School in the New Hermitage

About the Artist

Edward Petrovich Hau

1807 – 1887

Russian painter, born in Revel (today Tallinn, Estonia). In 1830-32 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. He specialised in watercolour, and in 1854 he became academician of watercolour painting. The artist executed watercolours of the interiors of the most famous buildings in Moscow (the Grand Kremlin Palace), St. Petersburg (the Winter Palace and the Hermitage) and Gatchina (the Great Palace).

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