# The Cabinet of the Italian Schools

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## Artwork

- Artist: [HAU, Edward Petrovich](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hau-edward-petrovich-r04fe369e27fbca>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Watercolour on paper, 298 x 286 mm

## Commentary

The Cabinet of the Italian Schools 1856 Watercolour on paper, 298 x 286 mm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg In the second row on the right, by the door, is &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/t/tiziano/09/10mirror.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/t/tiziano/09/10mirror.html&#34;&gt;Titian&#39;s Venus with a Mirror,&lt;/a&gt; which was sold in 1931 to Andrew Mellon, the financier and U.S. Treasury Secretary, and later became part of the collection of the National Gallery of Art that he founded in Washington. In the 191th century, the painting was such an undisputed masterpiece that a copy could be placed in the same room, on the other side of the door.

## Related artworks

- [The Room of the German School in the New Hermitage](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hau-edward-petrovich-r04fe369e27fbca/the-room-of-the-german-school-in-the-new-hermitage-ra862a79cd2dc3c>)
- [The Room of the Russian School in the New Hermitage](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hau-edward-petrovich-r04fe369e27fbca/the-room-of-the-russian-school-in-the-new-hermitage-ra4bc5c4ded3bf9>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)