Twilight. The Moon

Levitan I. I.

1860, Kibarty (Lithuania) - 1900, Moscow

Twilight. The Moon

1899

oil on canvas. 49,5 x 61,3
Ж-4265
Пост. в 1901 с посмертной выставки произведений И. И. Левитана

Location in museum The Rossi Wing Open the panorama of the hall in the virtual tour
Зал 40. Русское искусство конца XIX ‒ начала XX веков. Левитан
Period Late 19th century – Early 20th century
CategoryLandscape
Keywords Лесной пейзаж | вечер, закат | осень | Moonlit night
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Contemporaries of Isaac Levitan descried the fin-de-siècle emotions of a lonely and suffering soul in the artist’s melancholic images.Permeated with subtle music, this particular work is a classic example of the mature oeuvre of this leading master of Russian “mood landscape” painting. The ghostly moonlight and the mirror-like surface of the lake duplicate reality, transforming the landscape. Frozen in its nightly ritual of standing before its sorrowful luminary, the landscape seems immersed in its own secrets, estranged and cold to man.

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