Alexander IvanovRussian, 1806–1858Two Singing Boys
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Two Singing Boys” now? Collection: State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. Unknown.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- ЭРЖ-2119
In the catalog
Sources
- State Hermitage Museum
- Image: State Hermitage Museum — © State Hermitage Museum
In the life of Alexander Ivanov
The whole life16 July 1806
Born
c. 1817
Enters the Academy of Arts at eleven
The son of the painting professor Andrei Ivanovich Ivanov, Alexander entered the Imperial Academy of Arts at eleven as an “outside” pupil, studying with the support of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists, mainly under his father, alongside Karl Bryullov.
1830
To Rome via Germany on the Society's grant
Having met the Society's condition, Ivanov left to perfect his art in Europe and, travelling through Germany with a stay in Dresden, arrived in Rome. His first Roman works were a copy of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel and sketches of biblical subjects.
1836
Made an academician for “Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene”
The Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection, conceived as a trial of strength before the great canvas, was a great success both in Rome and in St Petersburg, where it earned Ivanov the title of academician.
1858
Brings “The Appearance of Christ” to St Petersburg
Only in 1858 did Ivanov dare to send the painting to St Petersburg and come with it; the exhibition of the canvas with all its sketches and studies in a hall of the Academy of Arts made a strong impression, and his landscape studies were ahead of Russian painting of the day. The same year the artist died of cholera.
3 July 1858
Died
