Isaac Levitan1860–1900Пейзаж
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Пейзаж” now? Collection: Chelyabinsk State Art Museum, Chelyabinsk. Unknown.
Chelyabinsk, 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 пруд с топкими берегами, поросшими травой. На втором плане редко стоящие деревья, верхушки которых отражаются в воде пруда. Этюд выполнен в сдержанной цветовой гамме коричневатых, зеленоватых тонов. На середине нижней кромки: Этюд брата И. Левитана А. Левитан. На обратной стороне надпись на наклейке: вл. Завилович Левитан Пейзаж 33х22
Chelyabinsk State Art Museum
Details
- Accession number
- Ж-589
In the catalog
Sources
- The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia
- Image: Chelyabinsk State Art Museum — © Челябинский государственный музей изобразительных искусств · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ
In the life of Isaac Levitan
The whole life1887
His first trip to the Volga: the river seems dreary
In 1887 he at last fulfils his dream and goes to the Volga, which his teacher Savrasov had painted so movingly (in the early 1880s his sister's illness had prevented the trip). In cold, overcast weather the river disappoints him: it seems to him dreary and dead.
late 1880s – early 1890s
Heads the landscape class at Gunst's school
In the late 1880s and early 1890s he heads the landscape class at the School of Fine Arts of the artist-architect A. O. Gunst.
spring 1888
He discovers Plyos on the Volga
In spring 1888 he sails by steamer along the Oka to Nizhny Novgorod and on up the Volga with the artist Alexei Stepanov and Sofia Kuvshinnikova; to their own surprise they discover the small, quiet town of Plyos and decide to stay on for a while. The three summer seasons there (1888–1890) prove extremely productive: some two hundred works bring Levitan wide fame.
late 1889 – early 1890
His first trip to Western Europe
He visits France and Italy, wanting to get to know modern painting better as shown at the World Exhibition in Paris — probably above all the Barbizon school and the Impressionists. According to Nesterov, in the West he became convinced that the path he had chosen was the right one.
summer 1890
Yuryevets: the idea of “A Quiet Monastery”
In summer 1890 he goes to Yuryevets and, among many landscapes and studies, paints “View of the Krivoozersky Monastery”; this is how the idea of “A Quiet Monastery” is born. The picture made a strong impression on Chekhov.
March 1891
Admitted to the Peredvizhniki Association
In March 1891 he becomes a member of the Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions.
