ALEXANDER IVANOVICH SAUERWEID (1783-1844) Sled races in the snow. Red taverns road

aquatint on paper 27 x 52 cm early XIX century Alexander Ivanovich Sauerweid was German and Russian painter and engraver, a leading representative of the romantic-academic school of the reigns of Alexander I and Nicholas I. He was educated at the Dresden Academy (1806-1812) and had already enjoyed some fame in Germany; in 1812, then a very young artist, he executed in oil a number of images of horses commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1814 Alexander Sauerweid was invited by Alexander I to St. Petersburg to execute paintings of military content and drawings of uniforms of Russian troops. During the reign of Nicholas I he was a drawing teacher to the Grand Dukes.