Girl with a Pitcher

The "Girl with a Jug" fountain in Catherine Park near the Big Pond is a monument of landscape architecture and sculpture of the early 19th century of federal and international significance. Art historian Magdalena Rakova attributed Sokolov's work to typical examples of Empire style, close to the art of Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen, while museum researcher Lidia Emina saw in it a symbol of the victory of the joy of life over grief. Local historian Nina Semennikova noted that the sculpture seems to be hidden behind the bushes, and the roughly hewn granite of the pedestal emphasizes the fragility of the figure, which Lyudmila Doronina associated with the skillful processing of a natural boulder by master Betancourt. A copy of the statue, created in case of vandalism, is kept in the funds of Tsarskoye Selo.