Sylvester Schedrin
St. Petersburg 1791 - 1830 Sorrento
Fishermen on the rocky Coast of Sorrento, late 1820s
Oil on canvas
48,2 x 68,2 cm
PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, Italy
Two similar scenes dating from late 1820's are in the collections of the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (both illustrated, see exhib. cat. The Light of Italy, Sylvester Schedrin and his Russian Contemporaries, Paintings and Drawings from the Russian Museum, G. Goldovsky and Y. Petrova (Ed.), May 2 - September 30, 2007, Villa Fiorentino, Sorrento, no. 11, ill. and p. 19).
We kindly thank Hans Ottomeyer, Munich, author of the exhibition catalogue Russische Malerei der Biedermeierzeit - Meisterwerke aus der Tretjakow Galerie Moskau im Dialog mit Gemälden der Neuen Galerie Kassel, Staatliche Museen Kassel, February 20 - May 2, 1999, for his certificate, dated March 1, 2017, who confirmed the attribution.