Madame Lwoff
Gegevens
- Inventarisnummer
- RF 1980 8
Intussen, in het leven van Valentin Serov
Het hele leven1878–1911 · Werkzaam in
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.
1896
His first exhibition abroad, in Munich
Serov’s works were shown abroad for the first time, at a private exhibition in Munich (the Secession); at the end of the year he received invitations to take part in exhibitions in Munich, Stockholm and Copenhagen.
1897
Takes the life-drawing studio despite an earlier refusal
