Vasily Perov1834–1882Весна
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Весна” now? Collection: Samara Art Museum, Samara. Unknown.
Samara, 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
Изображение обнаженной по пояс женщины, которую обнимает за шею и целует Амур. В правой руке ее гирлянда цветов. На левой сидит кукушка. На фоне неба летящие птицы и цветы.
Samara Art Museum
Details
- Accession number
- Ж-28
In the catalog
Sources
- The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia
- Image: Samara Art Museum — © Самарский областной художественный музей · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ
In the life of Vasily Perov
The whole life1878
The World's Fair in Paris
In 1878 at the World's Fair in Paris Perov showed “The Wanderer”, “The Birdcatcher”, “The Fisherman”, “Fomushka the Owl” and “Hunters at Rest”, along with portraits of F. M. Dostoevsky and V. V. Bezsonov.
late 1881
Typhus and pneumonia undermine his health
At the end of 1881 typhus and pneumonia finally undermined Perov's health.
last years of life
Stories in the “Art Journal”
Perov wrote not only with paint: in his last years he worked with L. P. Sabaneev's journal “Nature and Hunting”, and a number of his stories were printed in N. A. Aleksandrov's “Art Journal”.
29 May 1882
Death from consumption in the Golitsyn hospital
Perov died of consumption in his 49th year in the small Golitsyn hospital on the Kuzminki estate near Moscow; he was buried in the cemetery of the Danilov Monastery, and his remains were later moved to the cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery.
29 May 1882
Died
