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Over Eternal Peace
''Over Eternal Peace'' is a landscape painting by Russian artist Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), completed in 1894. It belongs to the State Tretyakov Gallery (Inventory No. 1486). The size of the painting is 150 × 206 cm (152 × 207.5 cm, according to other sources). The painting's creation began in the summer of 1893, while Levitan was in Tver Governorate, Tver governorate, specifically in the area of lakes Ostrovno and Udomlya Lake, Udomlya. In 1894, the canvas ''Over Eternal Peace'' was exhibited at the 22nd exhibition of the Peredvizhniki, Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions ('Peredvizhniki') in Saint Petersburg. Prior to the exhibition's opening, Pavel Tretyakov had already purchased the painting from the author. ''Over Eternal Peace'' is one of the three largest pieces created by the artist, alongside ''By The Pool'' (1892) and ''Lake (painting), Lake'' (1899–1900). ''Over Eternal Peace'', along with ''By The Pool'' and Vladimirka (painting), ''Vladimirka'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaak Levitan
Isaac Ilyich Levitan (; – ) was a Russian landscape Painting, painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". Life and work Youth Isaac Levitan was born in a ''shtetl'' of Kybartai, Kibarty, Augustów Governorate in Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania) into a poor but educated Lithuanian Jews, Jewish family. His father Elyashiv Levitan was the son of a rabbi, completed a Yeshiva and was self-educated. He taught German language, German and French language, French in Kaunas, Kowno and later worked as a translator at a railway bridge construction for a French building company. At the beginning of 1870 the Levitan family moved to Moscow. In September 1873, Isaac Levitan entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where his older brother Avel had already studied for two years. After a year in the copying class Isaac transferred into a naturalistic class, and soon thereafter into a landscape class. Levitan's teachers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
