Winter Scene, Ukraine
Object Label
Il’ia Repin painted this wintry landscape outside, on blue paper that creates an atmospheric backdrop, in his hometown of Chuguev (now Chuhuiv, in present-day Ukraine) on December 11, 1876, according to the Cyrillic inscription that is visible at the bottom of the watercolor. Repin made this sketch after returning from an artistic sojourn in Europe, a place that, he observed in 1872, “needs a flood of fresh strength from the provinces.”
Caption
Il'ya Efimovich Repin (Chuhuiv, present–day Ukraine, 1844 – 1930, Kuokkala, Finland). Winter Scene, Ukraine, 1876. Opaque watercolor, translucent watercolor, and graphite on blue wove paper, 10 1/8 x 6 11/16 in. (25.7 x 17 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Carll H. De Silver Fund and Museum Collection Fund, 33.306.
Gallery
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Gallery
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Artist
Title
Winter Scene, Ukraine
Date
1876
Medium
Opaque watercolor, translucent watercolor, and graphite on blue wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
10 1/8 x 6 11/16 in. (25.7 x 17 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right in red pencil: "I. Repin"
Inscriptions
"Chuguev / 11 December / 1876" written in pencil or graphite on recto bottom left-hand corner
Credit Line
Carll H. De Silver Fund and Museum Collection Fund
Accession Number
33.306
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