Started, but not finished, almost monochrome, the painting “Inspection of the Old House”, like the previous work of Kramskoy “Mermaid”, can be attributed to the genre of pictorial elegy. The story, the details of everyday life recede into the background. So it is not clear who the main character of the picture is, making his […]
The year 1863 was marked for the painter Kramskoy not only by the creation of a group of artists around himself who refused to paint according to the subject academic canons, which would soon be called “Itinerants”, but also by his marriage to Sofya Nikolaevna Prokhorova. The testimonies of the master’s contemporaries have survived, which […]
Year of painting: 1834. Painting dimensions: no data. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: landscape. Style: realism. Gallery: Louvre, Paris, France.
Year of painting: 1892. Dimensions: no data. Material: no data. Writing technique: no data. Genre: landscape. Style: impressionism. Gallery: no data.
Year of painting: 1822 or 1823. Dimensions of the painting: 81 x 64 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: portrait. Style: romanticism. Gallery: State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
The full title of this masterpiece by Claude Monet, written in 1867, is “Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden of Sainte-Adresse.” The theme of nature has always interested the artist very much, landscapes occupy a large place in his work, they are very bright, diverse – people sometimes found in images of nature are relegated to […]