The artist is the Mayer
A native of the German city of Nuremberg Johann Georg Mayr was invited to St. Petersburg in 1778 to the post of drawing master at the Academy of Sciences. Between 1796 and 1803, he performed a picturesque series of species of St. Petersburg dedicated to the centenary of the city. Nine works of this series are stored in the State Russian Museum, including this picture.
The canvas is dated based on the installation time of the obelisk in honor of the victories p. AND. Rumyantseva (1799, architect in. F. Brenna; In 1818 he was transferred to Vasilyevsky Island). It depicts one of the oldest squares of St. Petersburg (funeral field, Tsaritsyn Lug, Marse Field). Left – marble palace and service building. On the right – the houses of Betsky and Saltykov.
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