A Woodland Scene (The Sun Reflecting on the Dew, a Garden Scene: Echo, Pennsylvania, A Place belonging to Mr. D. Bavarage, 1808)
1811–ca. 1813
Medium
Watercolor and gouache on white wove paper
Dimensions
5 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. (14.9 x 21 cm)
Classification
Watercolor
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1942
Accession Number
42.95.50
Tags
Art Historical Context
**A Woodland Scene** (also titled *The Sun Reflecting on Dew, a Garden Scene: Echo, Pennsylvania A Place belonging to Mr D. Bavarage, 1808) is a charming early 19th-century watercolor and gouache on white wove paper by diplomat-artist Pavel Petrovich Sin and English engraver William Russell Birch Created between 1811 circa 1813, petite work (5 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.) evokes the luminous morning light dancing on dewy foliage in a serene Pennsylvania garden estate. Svinin, who traveled through America during a diplomatic mission, captured such intimate landscapes to document the young nation's natural ...
About the Artist
Pavel Petrovich Svinin|William Russell Birch · 1787–1839
Pavel Petrovich Svinin (1787–1839) was a Russian diplomat, writer, and amateur artist whose visual record of early American life constitutes one of the most vivid and historically valuable documentary accounts of the United States in the early nineteenth century. Born in Russia in 1787, Svinin received a broad education and pursued a career in the Russian foreign service, which brought him to the ...