In September 2008, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the first monographic exhibition of Russian landscape painter Fyodor Mikhailovich Matveyev (1758 - 1826). The exhibition is timed to 250 anniversary of the outstanding masters of the classical landscape. For most of his life Matveev lived in Italy where he earned a European reputation. The legacy of the artist shared the fate of academic art. Recognized by contemporaries, it has survived time of decline, long considered obsolete and devoid of identity. Exhibition - the return of original art FM Matveyeva contemporary audience. The project brings together many Russian and foreign museums, including the State Hermitage, Russian Museum, National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, as well as private collections. Made a lot of interesting discovery: discovered new facts biography of the artist, explained the content of landscape features, and clarified the time of their creation. The album, whose publication is timed to the exhibition, the first time published a directory of products Matveyeva. Pictures, panoramas of the Italian species, varied schedule, including travel sketches collected in the halls of the Engineering Building Gallery, invited to «picturesque journey», in the spirit of the XVIII century, along with the artist, charmed by the beautiful kind.

Source: tretyakovgallery.ru