Attributed to Albert Benois, Russian Soviet, 1852 to 1936, gouache painting on paper depicting a rural landscape with a house view. Signed with initials lower right. Albert Nikolayevitch Benois was a Russian painter and art teacher who specialized in watercolor landscapes. Albert Nikolayevich Benois was a Russian watercolorist. Benois was from a Russian family of artists, of French descent. His father, named Nikolai Leontievich Benois was the famous architect of the Imperial Mariinsky Opera House in St. Petersburg, as well as many other historic landmarks. One of a kind artwork.