Ivan Aivazovsky1817–1900Бахча
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Бахча” now? Collection: Gatchina Museum-Preserve, Gatchina. Unknown.
Gatchina, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Museum text in Russian
Изображен летний вечерний пейзаж. Слева направо идет дорога. Справа по дороге мужчина ведет за оглоблю лошадь, запряженную в телегу. Слева небольшой сарай, рядом с которым стоит мужчина. Левее стоит телега, на которой еще один мужчина. Рядом с ними женщина. Горизонт и дорога освещены розовато-оранжевым светом заходящего солнца. Небо серовато-голубое.
Gatchina Museum-Preserve
Details
- Accession number
- ГДМ-478-III
In the catalog
Sources
- The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia
- Image: Gatchina Museum-Preserve — © Гатчина · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ
In the life of Ivan Aivazovsky
The whole life1886–1887
Half a century of work: the jubilee
In 1886 the fiftieth anniversary of his creative labours is marked by an exhibition in Saint Petersburg and honorary membership of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (other accounts date it to 1887). In 1887 Aivazovsky gives a jubilee dinner for 150 friends: each guest receives a miniature by the master set into a photograph of the artist at work in his studio.
1887
Gives Feodosia the water of the Subash spring
Unable to watch his town suffer from lack of water any longer, Aivazovsky, in an address to the city duma, gives Feodosia in perpetuity 50,000 buckets of clean water a day from his Subash spring. In 1887 work begins on a water pipeline, and in the park by the embankment a fountain is built to his design, from which townspeople draw water free of charge; in 1890 a grateful Feodosia raises a fountain-monument to him.
July 1888
Chekhov at Shakh-Mamai
In July 1888 Anton Chekhov, visiting Feodosia, spends a whole day at Aivazovsky's Shakh-Mamai estate and dines with its owner. The estate strikes him as luxurious and fairy-tale-like; in a letter he describes Aivazovsky ironically but recognises in him a complex nature worthy of attention.
