Exhibition 'Western European Art. Classicism'

About exhibition

French painting is represented by individual works from the 17th to the first half of the 19th century. The collection of German painting is mainly displayed through works by little-known artists. An early work is "Portrait of Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg." Of interest are works by Georg Demare "Portrait of a Lady with a Pug", Gaetano Roos "Landscape with a Herd", Peter-Henrich Happel "Romantic Landscape", Joseph Rebelle "Night", Karl Riedl "Judith with the Head of Holofernes" and an unknown German artist "Landscape with a Sailing Ship." The exhibition halls are adorned with objects of decorative and applied arts — faience and porcelain made by craftsmen from Italy, France, the Netherlands, England and Germany, as well as marble and bronze exhibits from the 18th–19th centuries, most of which were created in Italy by local artists after antique models. Among them are works by Antonio Canova "The Writing Boy", Paolo Andrea Triscorni "Sleeping Ariadne", Giovanni Dupré "The Weary Bacchant" and others.