A Forgotten Russian Patron. The Collection of Count Pavel Sergeevich Stroganov

	Italian School (1)		Dutch School (11)
	Italian and Dutch Schools (2)		Dutch School (12)
	Italian School (3)		European Landscape. 19th century (13)
	Italian School (4)		Works of Decorative and Applied Art (14)
	German School. Decorative and Applied Arts, Italy, 16th Century (5)		Drawings of Pavel Stroganov (15)
	Italian and Russian Schools (6)		Anthony van Dyck and Govert Flinck (16)
	Chinese and Japanese Porcelain, early 18th - early 19th centuries (7)		Italian School (17)
	Dutch and French Schools (8)		Books from the Collection of Pavel Stroganov (18)
	Russian Artists of the 19th Century (9)		Watercolors by Jules Mayblum (19)
	Portrait of Count Pavel Stroganov by Karl Brullov (10)		Italian School (20)

A Forgotten Russian Patron. The Collection of Count Pavel Sergeevich Stroganov

The following exhibition, entitled “A Forgotten Russian Patron: The Collection of Count Pavel Sergeevich Stroganov”, was organized by the State Hermitage Museum with the support of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Tambov Regional Art Gallery, and the National Library of Russia. Altogether the exhibit includes some 250 items, including paintings, sculpture, works of applied art, watercolours, and photographs.

The present exhibition is a tribute to Count Pavel Sergeevich Stroganov (1823–1911), “a noble defender of the arts”, a considerable portion of whose collection has found its way into the Hermitage. That collection, which was put together in the mid to late 19th century, has been undeservedly forgotten, although it not only reflected the tastes of the period, but also gave our museum a number of remarkable paintings and sculptures.