Viktor Vasnetsov1848–1926Крестьянин в меховой шапке
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Where is “Крестьянин в меховой шапке” now? Collection: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Unknown.
Moscow, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Museum text in Russian
В конце 1860-х – начале 1870-х годов Васнецов работал почти исключительно в графике: карандашом, пером, углем, реже – акварелью. Современники признавали Васнецова «одним из талантливейших рисовальщиков народных сцен». Персонажи его первых произведений – крестьяне вятских сел, простой петербургский люд. Это могли быть портреты, отдельные типы или многофигурные жанровые композиции. Со временем рисунки Васнецова становились все более зрелыми по содержанию и художественным задачам, которые художник перед собой ставил.
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В портрете «Крестьянин в меховой шапке» передан образ неизвестного нам пожилого человека. Позируя, крестьянин погрузился в свои размышления: неподвижная, застывшая поза, чуть прищуренные, устремленные вдаль глаза, плотно сжатые губы под густыми усами. По всей видимости, это человек волевой, с сильным характером, прошедший суровую школу жизни, но не утративший своих положительных душевных качеств.
Мастерски выполненный, портрет является одним из наиболее проработанных рисунков Васнецова того времени. В портрете точно смоделирована форма, выявлен объем, переданы различные фактуры материалов.
Tretyakov Gallery
Details
- Accession number
- ДМВ Г-149
In the catalog
Sources
- Tretyakov Gallery
- Image: Tretyakov Gallery — © State Tretyakov Gallery
In the life of Viktor Vasnetsov
The whole life1868–1876
Friendship with Repin and the “evenings” at Antokolsky’s
In St Petersburg he grew very close to Ilya Repin; he attended the “evenings” at the apartment of Repin and the sculptor Mark Antokolsky, where the student Ivan Savenkov read bylinas in a slow chant, in the northern accent so familiar to Vasnetsov — and so his interest in early Russian culture and folk epic finally took shape.
1868–1876
Friendship with Arkhip Kuindzhi
In St Petersburg he grew especially close to Arkhip Kuindzhi: the taciturn Vasnetsov found the key to his reserved nature, and when Kuindzhi painted “Ukrainian Night” he exclaimed that it was the very night Gogol had spoken of — “now we see it”.
1870
He meets Pavel Chistyakov
Pavel Chistyakov, back from Rome, saw Vasnetsov’s drawing “A Prince’s Icon-painting Workshop” at an Academy exhibition, asked to be introduced to its author and soon made him a regular pupil; Vasnetsov remembered his teacher as “an enemy of the formula” who could show each pupil the road to his own development.
summer 1871
He meets his future wife, Alexandra Ryazantseva
In the summer of 1871, home in Vyatka on academic leave, he met Alexandra Ryazantseva in the local library — a merchant’s daughter who would become one of the first women from Vyatka with a higher medical education; he was struck by “her eyes — stern and extraordinarily kind”.
1873–1875
He leaves the Academy before graduating
In 1873, a year before the end of the course, he almost stopped attending the Academy and went only to Chistyakov’s studio: Chistyakov told him he had already got from the Academy all it could give, and Kramskoi advised the same; on 4 (16) February 1875 he was formally discharged, receiving a certificate that listed two small silver medals and one large one.
1874
“Tea-drinking in a Tavern” with the Peredvizhniki
In 1874 he took part for the first time in an exhibition of the Peredvizhniki, showing “Tea-drinking in a Tavern” (“Over Tea”).
