Lot 6: Migneret after Charles Auguste, Baron de Steuben (1788-1856) Peter the Great in a Storm on Lake Ladoga

Peter the Great in a Storm on Lake Ladoga
engraving on wove
56.5 x 62cm (22 1/4 x 24 7/16in).

In the Yellow Hall at Peterhof there is a gobelin embroidered in the early nineteenth century after the painting by Steuben which shows Peter the Great rescuing fishermen during a storm on Lake Ladoga. This gobelin was commissioned by Napoleon I, but was finished in the reign of Louis XVIII who presented it to Alexander I.