The Apotheosis of War
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Tretyakov Gallery
Moscow, Russia
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
The Apotheosis of War (Russian: Апофеоз войны) is an 1871 painting by Russian war artist Vasily Vereshchagin. Following his completion of the painting, Vereshchagin dedicated his work "to all great conquerors, past, present and to come". Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a pile of skulls outside the walls of a city in Central Asia. It is considered part of Vereshchagin's Turkestan Series.
The painting is now displayed in the Tretyakov Gallery, in Moscow.
Particulars
- Accession number
- 183
Sources
- Tretyakov Gallery: the museum's own open data · fetched 4 days ago
- Image: Tretyakov Gallery — Museum open access