View of the Kremlin and Moskvoretsky bridge from the Moscow river embankment

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Joseph Andreas Weiss (1814-1887)
View of the Kremlin and Moskvoretsky bridge from the Moscow river embankment
signed with artist's monogram and dated '1870' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour on paper
15¾ x 25 7/8 in. (40 x 65.8 cm.)

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Joseph Andreas Weiss resided in St Petersburg from 1839-1852 as court painter to Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817-1852). Weiss also received important commissions from Emperor Nicholas I (1796-1855), father of the Duke's wife, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (1819-1876).

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