Ivan Shishkin1832–1898Мельница в поле
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Мельница в поле” now? Collection: Tatarstan State Museum of Fine Arts, Kazan. Unknown.
Kazan, 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
На первом плане сложенные снопы в поле. Справа - ветряная мельница.
Tatarstan State Museum of Fine Arts
Details
- Accession number
- Ж-847
In the catalog
Sources
- The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia
- Image: Tatarstan State Museum of Fine Arts — © Государственный музей изобразительных искусств Республики Татарстан · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ
In the life of Ivan Shishkin
The whole life1857–1860 · Education
Imperial Academy of Arts
late 1850s
Trips to Valaam
In the years following Dubki he traveled with Gine and Dzhogin to Valaam Island on Lake Ladoga; these trips honed his skill in rendering nature precisely with brush and pencil.
1859 · Award
Malaya zolotaya medal Imperatorskoy Akademii khudozhestv
1860 · Award
Large gold medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts
1861
Academy Fellowship Abroad: Munich
As a stipendiary of the Academy he went to Munich, where he visited the studios of the popular animal painters, the brothers Benno and Franz Adam.
1863
Zurich: With Koller, First Etchings
He moved to Zurich, where under the guidance of Rudolf Koller he painted animals from life and first tried engraving with aqua regia; from there he made an excursion to Geneva to see the works of Diday and Calame.
