Whitsunday (1884)
Approaching Storm, Sheep on a Riverbank
Midday in the Countryside (1864)
Village Scene in Winter (1890)
Friday, September 28, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Vasiliy Vereshchagin, ctd
Politicians in an Opium Den (1870)
Reliquaries in Ladakh (1875)
[Wow. This guy got around.]
Road of the War Prisoners (1878-79)
Shinto Temple in Nikko
Solomon's Wall (1884-85)
Surprise Attack (1871)
The Apotheosis of War (1871)
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky, ctd
Landscape
Oaks (1884)
The Road (1899)
Skit on a Moonlit Night (1898)
[anyone know what "skit" refers to?]
Summer Landscape (1905)
The Khutir in Little Russia (1884)
[explanation of what "khutir" is]
Village on the Banks of a River
Zvenigorod (1895)
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Miscellanea
Adrian Markovich Volkov: The Interrupted Betrothal (1860)
Emily Shanks: Hiring a Governess
Karl Bogdanovich Venig: Nurse Visits a Child
Nikolay Yakovlevich Gribkov: Grandpa's Coat
Pavel Bryullov: Spring
Peter Bassin: Susanna and the Elders
Timoleon von Neff: Bather
Monday, September 24, 2012
Ivan Aivazovsky, ctd
Turkish Coastal Scene (1874)
Venetian Lagoon by Night
Venice
View in the Crimea, Sunset
View of Moscow from the Sparrow Hills (1851)
View of Odessa from the Sea (1865)
View of a Bay Near Venice (1842)
Peterhof. View of the Palace and the Grand Cascade (1837)
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)