Shishkin I. I. Oaks

Shishkin I. I.

1832, Yelabuga (Vyatka Gubernia) -1898, St Petersburg

Oaks

1887

oil on canvas. 147 x 108
Ж-4130
Received in 1927

Location in museum The Mikhailovsky Palace Open the panorama of the hall in the virtual tour
Room 27
Period Late 19th century
CategoryLandscape
Keywords The Peredvizhniki, Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions | forest landscape | summer | day
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This work is an excellent example of Russian Realist landscape painting in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ivan Shishkin painted the picture in Dubki Park, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, twenty miles from St Petersburg. He first came here in the 1860s, when he planned to open a studio where landscapists could work in the summer. The artist was a regular visitor to the park in the 1880s, when he painted this particular canvas. Russian Museum: From Icons to the Modern Times. Palace Editions, St Petersburg, 2015. P. 215.

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