Valentin Serov1865–1911Вороненок
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Where is “Вороненок” now? Collection: State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg. Unknown.
Saint Petersburg, 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
Варианты и наброски композиции – в ГТГ и в частных собраниях, Москва, Петербург. // Валентин Александрович Серов. СПб. 2005. С. 231.
State Russian Museum
Details
- Accession number
- Р-13416
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- State Russian Museum
- Image: State Russian Museum — © State Russian Museum
In the life of Valentin Serov
The whole life1878–1911 · Workplace
Moscow
1894
Elected a member of the Peredvizhniki
In 1894 Serov was elected a member of the Peredvizhniki, to which he belonged until 1900; his portrait of S. A. Tolstaya and the landscape “In the Crimea” were shown at their 22nd exhibition.
August – September 1894
Through the Russian North with Korovin
Having finished and presented “Alexander III and His Family”, Serov spent two months, until the end of September 1894, travelling through the Russian North with Konstantin Korovin and painted a great many studies.
early 1896
A commission for a watercolour of the coronation of Nicholas II
In early 1896 Serov received a lucrative commission for the watercolour “The Anointing of the Emperor” for the art album of the coronation of Nicholas II; it gave him the right to attend the coronation on 26 May in the Dormition Cathedral, and the work was due by 1 May 1897.
23 March 1898
Awarded the title of academician
On 23 March 1898 the general meeting of the Academy of Arts, on the proposal of Mathé, Repin and Chistyakov, awarded Serov the title of academician.
1900
The Grand Medal of Honour at the Paris World’s Fair
For his portrait of Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich at the World’s Fair in Paris, which Serov visited with his wife in October, he was awarded the Grand Medal of Honour.
