Oil on panel. 49 X 37 cm. Inv. No 919 Signed lower left: M te Gerard
The picture was painted in the early 1800s. It was brought to St Petersburg with the collection of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg, and from 1884 to 1919 was exhibited with the other pictures of this collection at the Academy of Arts.
Provenance: until 1824 The Collection of Eugene Beau-harnais, Munich; 1824—1918 The Collection of Dukes of Leuchtenberg, Munich (until 1853) and St Petersburg (since 1853); 1919—24 The Hermitage, Petrograd; since 1924 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 82; Dussieux 1856, p. 444; J. D. Passavant, Galerie Leuchtenberg. Ge-Tnaldesammlung des Herzogs von Leuchtenberg in Munchen, Frankfort on the Main, 1857, p. 43, ill.; Каталог картинной галереи герцога Николая Максимилиановича Лейхтенбергского, выставленной в залах Императорской Академии художеств, St Petersburg, 1884, No 222