Friday, September 21, 2012

Vladimir Makovsky, ctd

The Doctor's Waiting Room (1870)

 In the Forester's House

 In the Hall (1884)

 Market in Poltava

 Miracle at Cana (1887)

 Mother and Daughter (1886)

Outdoor Harvest

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Vasily Pukirev

Vasily Pukirev (1832-1890) was a Russian painter and illustrator.

 In the Artist's Studio (1865)

 The Dowry (1873)

The Unequal Marriage (1862)
[Of all of the paintings of reluctant brides, this is the most chilling I have seen.]

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Vasily Polenov, ctd

Old Mill (1880)

On the Boat (1880)
 
Portrait of A.V. Prahov, Art Historian and Art Critic (1879)

 Portrait of Vasilii Petrovich Shchegolenok (1879)
[apparently Shchegolenok was "a singer of byliny (epic folk songs)"]

 Russian Village (1881)

 The Burnt Forest (1881)

 The Nile (1881)

 The River Oka in Flood (1918)

The Virgin Spring in Nazareth (1882)

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Julius Klever

Julius (also known as Yuli) Klever (1850-1924) was a Russian landscape artist who specialized in winter scenes with bright colors.

 A Fishing Village at Dawn (1881)

 A Winter Day in the Forest

 Autumn in the Forest

 Birch Forest (1883)

 Evening Calm (1894)

 Forest

 House at Sunset (1880s)

Sunset over a Ukrainian Hamlet (1915)

Monday, September 17, 2012

Ivan Aivazovsky, ctd

 The Russian Squadron on the Sebastopol Roads (detail) (1846)

 The Shipwreck

 The Survivors

 The Tide

 Ox Train on the Steppe

 The Volga, near the Zhiguli Hills (1887)

Towers on the Coast of the Bosporus (1859)

Friday, September 14, 2012

Miscellanea

 Constantin Stoiloff: A Russian Caravan Racing in the Snow

 Konstantin Filippov: During the Siege of Sebastopol (1862)

 Narkiz Bunin: Uninvited Criticism (1884)

 Nikolai Florianovich Dobrovolskiy: The Ferry Across the Angara in Irkutsk

 Nikolai Zagorskiy: At the County Hospital (1886)

Petr Zabolotskiy: Girl with a Cigarette (1850)

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Yefim Volkov

Yefim Volkov (1844-1920) was a Russian landscape painter.

 First Snow (1883)

 In the Woods. In Spring (1877)
[I have also seen the title of this translated as In a Forest. By a Spring]

 Landscape with Pond (1887)

 October (1883)

 Marsh in Autumn (1871)

 The Monastery

Ukrainian Landscape with Cottage