Masterful gouache-watercolour with evil russian troika in the winter cityscape ( probably St.Petersburg or Moscow). It was created in 1828 by famous russian romantic painter and lithogrpher of polish origin Alexander ( Aleksandr Osipovich) Orlovsky ( Orlowski). The artist , born in 1777 in Warshaw , lived in in Poland as a youth where he studied under the french painter Norblen. He was involved in the polish patriotic movement and uprising of 1794. He worked in Poland untill his move to Russia in 1802.

He studied at the Academy in St.Petersburg and travelled to France, Germany and Italy. In 1812 russian Tzar Aleksandr III made him a court painter and thereafter he worked in St.Petersburg , producing paintings of shipwrecks, equestrian and military themes. He later painted street scenes , observing beggars and prisoners as well as elegant society . He was a prolific portrait draughtsman and caricaturist. He also produced theatrical designs . He died in St.Petersburg . Well represented in Tretjakov Gallery in Moscow, Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg , National Museums of Cracow, Warshaw and Berlin.

Inscription: signed with his faamous monogram AO and dated 1828.

Technique: watercolour-gouache on paper, original period frame.

Measurements: unframed w 10 4/6" x h 7 1/2" (27 x 19 cm); framed w 14 4/6 x h 12 1/3" (37.3 x 31.5 cm)

Condition: in very good condition , no paint losses or repairs.