Show all images on one page	#004955 Title: The View of the Moscow Kremlin Artist: Gaiduk Andrey Size: 18x13x2 Size (inches): 7x5x0.75 Price : $750 SOLD!

The famous canvas-on-oil painting "The View of the Moscow Kremlin from the direction of the Stone Bridge" inspired Andrey Gaiduk to create this gorgeous box. Painted by Fedor Alexeev in the XVIII century, this masterpiece is exhibited in the State Russian Museum in St.-Petersburg.
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev (1753-1824) was an early Russian painter of landscape art. After training in the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts, he spent three years in Venice studying the works of famous French and Italian landscape painters. Returning to Saint-Petersburg to work, his popularity grew over time. In 1800, Emperor Paul of Russia commissioned a series of paintings of Moscow from him.
The scene is painted in the realistic style using brown and blue tones of oils. Silver powder shines through the oils creating a sparkle of the river, the architecture, and the embankment. Gold is used to outline the scene, and decorate the box's sides with two parallel gold lines.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the box while red lacquer completes the interior of the work. A hinge is fastened to the top of the scene, and the box rests on a flat bottom. The work is signed with the artist's name, and the title ("Moscow").