The Room of the German School in the New Hermitage
by HAU, Edward Petrovich, Watercolour on paper, 303 x 328 mm
A place of honour among the works of 16th- to 18th-century German painting in this hall was allotted to Mengs’s monumental canvas The Judgment of Paris (at the top of the right-hand wall), bought from the artist’s studio after his death at Catherine II’s request.