Object Details
- Draftsman
- Thomas de Thomon (Jean-François Thomas), French, active in Russia, 1759–1813
- Architect
- Thomas de Thomon (Jean-François Thomas), French, active in Russia, 1759–1813
- Description
- A side of a building with five Doric pilasters, portico, and one Doric column. A Doric frieze contains metopes of masks and vases. At right and left corners of the base supporting the building are two urns, each entwined by a snake. At left, a tree grows on a boulder near a path; at right - an abundance of trees and foliage. Czar Paul I (r. 1796-1801) was assassinated in March 1801. His widow, the Empress Maria Feodorovna, commissioned this mausoleum from Thomas de Thomon, a French architect working in St. Petersburg between 1799 and 1813. The building still stands today on the grounds of Pavlovsk Palace.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Margery and Edgar Masinter and from Drawings and Prints Council, Sarah Cooper-Hewitt, and Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Funds
- 1805
- Accession Number
- 1998-37-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, green and brown watercolor, trace of black chalk on cream laid paper, ruled borders in pen and black ink
- Dimensions
- 24.8 x 38.4 cm (9 3/4 x 15 1/8 in.)
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1998-37-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq451662d5d-a3e8-466e-b0e2-f55b3a552ee9
