Niagara Falls—Canadian Side by Moonlight
Pavel Petrovich Svinin
1811–ca. 1813
Medium
Watercolor, transparent coating, and sgraffito on white wove paper
Dimensions
13 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (34.3 x 23.5 cm)
Classification
Watercolor
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1942
Accession Number
42.95.39
Tags
WaterfallsLandscapesTrees
About the Artist
Pavel Petrovich Svinin · 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 ...