Description of the picture: On the turf bench – Ilya Efimovich Repin. 1876. Oil on canvas. 36×56 The work of the great master depicts a hot noon. Before us is a family fleeing the summer heat in the shade of… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Mountain landscape – David Teniers the Younger. Canvas, oil. 1640. 32х51,2 The painting, executed in 1640, recalls the fantastic landscapes of the Flemish Jos de Momper (1564-1635). Teniers, like his predecessor, interprets the landscape as… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Seaside Harbor – David Teniers the Younger. The beginning of the 1650s. Canvas, oil. 58.5×83.6 This canvas depicts a port, not in Northern Italy, where Teniers had never been, but perhaps in Dover in England.… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Still life with a supplier – Antonio Pereda. Canvas, oil. 80×94 Antonio Pereda is a prominent painter of the Madrid school, who was influenced by Velazquez. He painted paintings on historical and biblical subjects, but gained… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Gold autumn. Slobodka – Isaac Ilyich Levitan. 1889. Oil on canvas. 43x 67.2 Isaac Ilyich Levitan is a master of landscape-mood, who enriched Russian landscape painting of the 1880-1900s with his picturesque and plastic searches and… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Great tonsure – Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov. 1898. Oil on canvas. 178×195 The work of Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (1862-1942) reflects the deep spiritual and religious searches of his era. The author of numerous paintings and monumental… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Female Portrait – Correggio (Antonio Allegri). Around 1518. Oil on canvas. 103×87.5 The portrait genre is quite rare in the works of the Italian master of the Renaissance, and the picture presented is the only work… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Dance – Henri Matisse. 1910. Oil on canvas. 260×391 The panel “Dance” (along with “Music”) was ordered by Henri Matisse to S. I. Schukin to decorate the stairs of the mansion in Moscow. Before being… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Sneak a kiss – Jean Honore Fragonard. 1787-1789. Canvas, oil. 45×55 The masterly master of the rococo style, Jean Honore Fragonard was a student of famous artists – Francois Boucher and Jean-Baptiste Chardin. The painter is… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of Empress Maria Alexandrovna – Franz Xavier Winterhalter. 1857. Oil on canvas. 120×95 Franz Winterhalter, a German by birth, settled in Paris in one thousand eight hundred thirty four and soon became a brilliant salon… Continue Reading