Perov arrived in Paris, already being an artist with a fully formed personality. After the accusatory pictures that were sensational in Russia, the “uncritical” depiction of everyday life was simply impossible for him. But “ignorance of the moral life of the people” (as Perov put it in another letter) makes it impossible to answer the…
Vasily Perov’s painting “Sermon in the Village”, written in 1861, was the artist’s diploma work. For this work, Perov received a gold medal and the opportunity to travel abroad. In the painting, the artist depicted a priest preaching a sermon in a rural church. He stretched out one hand to heaven, the other points to…
Perov’s painting “The arrival of the stanovoy for the investigation, for all its naivety, touched“ far and deep ”topical modern problems and therefore received a wide public response. The painting depicts the trial of a village boy, most likely a woodcutter. He was just brought into the hut, and a clerk with a tied cheek…
Portrait of F.M. Dostoevsky, painted by Perov by order of the Tretyakov Gallery, was completed in 1872. The artist wrote it with inspiration, completely devoting himself to the task at hand, because the great Russian writer was close to him in spirit, ideologically and religiously. But, despite his creative upsurge, while working on the portrait,…
Vasily Perov was an avid hunter, so the theme of hunting is often encountered in his works. Such canvases with self-explanatory names as “Fisherman”, “Dovecote”, “Birds”, “Hunters at Rest” have become the artist’s calling card. The plot of the painting takes its origins from real life, during the artist’s time hunting was very popular: three…
Painting by Vasily Perov “Troika” has a trivial plot for its time and a difficult history of writing. It was difficult for the artist to find models for the heroes of his painting: children who are forced to pull a huge barrel of water. The easiest thing was with the side characters – models for…
Year of painting: 1874. Dimensions of the painting: 42 x 37.5 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: realism. Gallery: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Before you is a painting by Vasily Grigorievich Perov “Drawing Teacher”. (State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow). Written in 1867 on a wooden board by the Windsor and Newton firm, it introduces us to the fate of an artist devoted to the ideals of the beautiful, but not recognized. Elderly, with sparse hair, in a shabby but…
Year of painting: 1867. Dimensions of the painting: 68 x 106 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: realism. Gallery: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Year of painting: 1870. Dimensions of the painting: 53 x 61 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: realism. Gallery: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.