Description of the picture: The bean king is Jacob Jordaens. Around 1638. Oil on canvas. 157×211 The Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) is the author of many paintings like the one presented, splashing with fun and enthusiasm. The master… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Ship Grove – Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin. Oil on canvas one hundred sixty five x 252 The outstanding landscape painter Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, according to contemporaries, was known as the true “king of the forest”. The… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Tradeswoman with a mirror – Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev. 1920. Oil on canvas. 141×108 Youth always attracts with its brightness, beauty, freshness. The artist presents us with an ordinary scene from a merchant’s life. A young… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Self portrait with sister – Victor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov. 1898. Oil on canvas. 143×177 Victor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov (1870-1905) is a unique master of the turn of the century, combining in his work the aesthetics of symbolism that… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of the artist N. N. Ge – Nikolay Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko. 1890. Oil on canvas. 92.5×73.5 Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko (1848-1896) is one of the main participants in the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions. Having secured the… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Breakfast – Diego de Silva Velazquez. Around 1617. Oil on canvas. 108,5×102 The court painter of the king, Don Diego de Silva Velazquez, along with portraits of crowned persons and high-ranking grandees, also painted ordinary… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Before the crown is Firs Sergeevich Zhuravlev. 1874. Oil on canvas. 105×143 Firs Sergeevich Zhuravlev (183b-1901) – a representative of genre painting of the second half of the XIX century. The heroes of his paintings are… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Rainbow – Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov. 1875. Oil on canvas. 45×56.5 The work of Alexei Kondratievich Savrasov (1830-1897) is a transitional stage in the landscape painting of the 19th century. Having freed her from the canons… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Fight – Adrian van Ostade. Wood, oil. Forty one x fifty five cm The Dutch painter Adrian van Ostade can be considered the founder of the peasant genre. After all, unlike other artists of the 17th… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Threshing floor – Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov. 1821/1822. Canvas, oil. 66.5×80.5 Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov (1780-1847) – the initiator of the everyday genre in Russian painting. The theme of his work was the harmony of the world of… Continue Reading