A Goose and a White Peacock
Provenance: Private collection, Europe. Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert V. Petrov. Ivan Grooth was a German-born artist who became court painter to Empress Elizaveta Petrovna of Russia. The Empress was a keen huntswoman and commissioned the Italian Architect Rastrelli to build her a hunting pavilion and menagerie, Mon Bijou, in the grounds of Tsarskoe Selo. Grooth was tasked with the decoration of the pavilion and he created a series of 43 paintings depicting hunting scenes and domestic animals. Mon Bijou was dismantled a few decades later and the whereabouts of most of these paintings is now unknown. It is possible that the present lot once decorated the walls of the Mon Bijou pavilion.
A Goose and a White Peacock
Provenance: Private collection, Europe. Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert V. Petrov. Ivan Grooth was a German-born artist who became court painter to Empress Elizaveta Petrovna of Russia. The Empress was a keen huntswoman and commissioned the Italian Architect Rastrelli to build her a hunting pavilion and menagerie, Mon Bijou, in the grounds of Tsarskoe Selo. Grooth was tasked with the decoration of the pavilion and he created a series of 43 paintings depicting hunting scenes and domestic animals. Mon Bijou was dismantled a few decades later and the whereabouts of most of these paintings is now unknown. It is possible that the present lot once decorated the walls of the Mon Bijou pavilion.
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