An antique 19th century oil on canvas painting In the street of Cairo, attributed to Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin. Circa 1875. Signed upper left. On the back, there is an attached label of the All-Russian Art Research and Restoration Center named after Academician I.E. Grabar. Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, 1842 to 1904, was a Russian painter and writer, one of the most famous battle painters. Studied at the Naval Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg, 1853-1860, at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, since 1858, at the Imperial Academy of Arts under A. T. Markov and A. E. Beideman, 1860-1863, studied at the Paris Academy art at J. L. Gerome and A. Bid, 1864-1866. In 1884 he was elected professor at the Academy of Arts, but refused this title, striving for independence from the official trend in art. For paintings on the theme of the Spanish-American war of 1898-1899, he was nominated for the first Nobel Peace Prize. With his works he marked a whole stage in the development of world battle painting. Author of many literary works and memoirs.