Primorsky view

The artist is Hyu

French painter Jean Francois Hyu (1751−1823) became famous for his marine landscapes. He studied at w. Verne and in the 1790s continued the series "The ports of France", Started by the teacher by order of King Louis XV in the 1750s. Like his famous teacher, Hyu continued the tradition of developing the landscape in the spirit of n. Pusen and K. Lorren. He loved to write scenes of storms and shipwrecks or, conversely, sea breeze, working a lot on the transfer of lighting effects, thereby anticipating the dynamic element of the painting of romanticism. In 1785−1786 Hyu worked in Rome. The impressions of this journey may have been the reason for creating this canvas.

The picture entered the Russian Museum from the former mansion of the prince in. N. Orlova (house number 90 on the embankment of the Moika River). In the nineteenth century, the mansion belonged to column a. P. Shuvalov, and then column in. AND. Stanbok-Fermoru, and the beginning of the twentieth century-to the prince in. N. Orlov. The picture was confined to the oak sheathing of the library wall: a similar show of works in the interior was especially popular since the beginning of the 18th century in Russia. The fashion for decorating the premises with landscapes was associated with the heyday of the collective activities of the nobles in Russia. And, above all, this reacted to the collecting of French painting in the second half of the XVIII – the first third of the XIX century, which contributed to the flowering of national art.