Description of the picture: Portrait of F. Ya. Dubyansky – Alexey Petrovich Antropov. Canvas, oil. 99.5 x 76.5 cm The representative of Russian painting of the Baroque era A.P. Antropov is known as one of the founders of portraiture. As… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: The educational house in Moscow – Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev. Watercolor on paper, 30.2 x 46.5 cm At the beginning of the 19th century, the famous master of urban landscape F. Ya. Alekseev, on the instructions of… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of a floor hetman – Ivan Nikitich Nikitin. 1720s Canvas, oil. 76×60 Ivan Nikitich Nikitin (circa one thousand six hundred eighty – not earlier than 1742) is one of the founders of Russian secular painting.… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Adolescence of the Madonna – Francisco de Zurbaran. Between 1658-1660. Canvas, oil. 73.5×53.5 Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664) belongs to the galaxy of Spanish artists of the XVII century. His work, despite the religious theme, is very… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: The mother with the sleeping child is Juan Batista Martinez del Maso. Around 1660. Oil on canvas. Sixty nine x fifty seven cm. This picture is very different from the ceremonial portraits of the artist… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of Princess E. A. Lobanova-Rostovskaya – Ivan Petrovich Argunov. 1754. Oil on canvas. 81.5×62.5 Ivan Petrovich Argunov (1727-1802) – a famous portrait painter of the second half of the XVIII century, until the end of… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of I. Ya. Bilibin. 1901. Oil on canvas. 142×110 This portrait is an early work of the master. It was created in the academic workshop of I. Repin. In this work, Kustodiev’s manner barely… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Meal – Vasily G. Perov. 1865-1876. Canvas, oil. 84×126 Vasily Grigorievich Perov is an outstanding master of the 1860-1870s, whose theme was the exposure of the imperfections of modern society. His paintings reflected the fate… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of the Italian artist Renato Guttuso – Pavel Dmitrievich Korin. 1961. Oil on canvas. 115×112 The homeland of Korin – the village of Palekh, Vladimir Region – is the ancient center of Russian art crafts.… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev – Ilya Efimovich Repin. 1903. Oil on canvas. 68,5×53 For all the breadth of his artistic interests, Repin was still primarily a portrait painter. A deep connoisseur of people and a… Continue Reading