Benjamin Patersson

Of very great rarity. Only three other copies located (one at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; one at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; and one sold at Bukowskis, Stockholm Dec 2012 , sale 571, Lot 941).
No copy in the Hermitage Palace Collection (Paterssens other St. Petersburg views have recently been made available on line at the Museums website).
Not in Koelova et al.; "Petersburg in the art of Paterssen" (Moskow 1978, Iskusstvo Publishers), and so far the the most comprehensive work published, illustrating all Paterssens known views of St Petersburg. Also see Print Quarterly Journal, March 1986, p51-59, where Larissa Salmina Haskell, writes: "In the recent reappraisal of Neoclassical art, particular admiration has been expressed for the painters of the Scandinavian school... One of the undeservedly lesser-known members of this school is the Swedish painter Benjamin Paterssen whose pictures do not appear in any of the major Collections of Scandinavian art. Most of his work has been dispersed without trace, and those townscapes and portraits which are now to be found in Russia all belong to his time in St. Petersburg where he emigrated when he was already aged 37. But even if his paintings had all disappeared, Paterssen's reputation as an outstanding artist would nevertheless have survived thanks to his splendid series of etched views of St Petersburg executed between 1799 and 1809, which are among the highest achievements of the art of townscape."
Reproductions of Pattersens other St. Petersburg views can be found in;
"St Petersburg around 1800. Masterpieces from the State Hermitage Museum Leningrad. An exhibition under the patronage of Miachail Gorbatschow and Richard von Weizsäcker", Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen 1990.
"in the Russian Style", Jacqueline Onassis, ed., New York 1976.
"Puschkin's St Petersburg", St. Petersburg 1991.
"The Artist and the City, Leningrad 1978.