Famous work · not an exact-location map point
The Last Day of Pompeii
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
A dramatised disaster scene, not a topographic view.
- Date
- 1833-01-01
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Where the original is now
Russian Museum
In the collection of Russian Museum
On-view status is not live-verified — check the museum before visiting.
Sources
- State Russian Museum, St Petersburg — collection record for Karl Bryullov, ‘The Last Day of Pompeii’, inv. Ж-5084; 1830–33, oil on canvas, 456 × 651 cm; commissioned by Anatoly Demidov, presented to Tsar Nicholas I, held by the Imperial Academy of Arts and transferred to the Russian Museum in 1897 (rusmuseum.ru)
- Rosalind P. Blakesley, ‘The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia, 1757–1881’ (Yale University Press, 2016)