Valentin Serov1865–1911Girl with peaches
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
Girl with Peaches (Russian: Девочка с персиками, romanized: Devochka s Persikami) is an 1887 painting by the Russian painter Valentin Serov.
It is considered to be one of Serov's greatest works and one of his most famous. Serov's friend and biographer, Russian art historian Igor Grabar, acclaimed it as "the masterpiece of Russian painting". According to the book 1000 Drawings of Genius, although the style of the painting (and Serov's early style in general) "has much in common with the French Impressionists, [Serov] did not become acquainted with their work until after he had painted [it]".
Particulars
- Accession number
- 13011
Sources
- Tretyakov Gallery: the museum's own open data · fetched 5 days ago
- Image: Tretyakov Gallery — Museum open access
Meanwhile, in the life of Valentin Serov
The whole life1878–1911 · Workplace
Moscow
1885
Travel: Belgium
September 1886
Leaves the Academy and moves in with the Mamontovs
In September 1886 Serov finally decided to leave the Academy and took his papers; because of the question of military service he moved to Moscow to the Mamontovs. He later wrote that at the Academy he valued only Chistyakov’s opinion.
summer 1888
“The Girl Illuminated by the Sun” is bought by Tretyakov
In the summer of 1888 at Vladimir Derviz’s estate of Domotkanovo Serov painted “The Girl Illuminated by the Sun”, a portrait of his cousin Maria Simonovich; Pavel Tretyakov bought the painting for 300 roubles.
December 1888
The Moscow Society prize for “Girl with Peaches”
At the competition of the Moscow Society of Art Lovers “Girl with Peaches” (shown as “Portrait of V. M.”) won the only prize in the portrait category, 200 roubles. There “The Overgrown Pond”, shown as “Twilight”, lost out to Levitan’s landscapes but was bought by the Yakunchikovs.
29 January 1889
Marries Olga Trubnikova
On 29 January 1889 in the Semyonovsky Regiment cathedral in St. Petersburg Serov married Olga Trubnikova; he asked Sergei Mamontov to be best man and invited Repin to be a witness.
