A historical city landscape A Small Corner of Moscow. Winter from the Khanty-Mansiysk State Museum of Fine Arts was done by Russian painter and graphic artist Appolinary Vasnetsov in 1911. At the time he was a tutor of the landscape class at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Archaeology, and worked intensely on a series of painting, watercolours and drawings devoted to the Moscow of the time of Yuri Dolgoruky, Ivan Kalita and Dmitry Donskoy. His knowledge of history, architecture and archaeology allowed him to achieve a fuller and more authentic image of the city and its stories.
A Small Corner of Moscow. Winter shows a typical contemporary Moscow courtyard. At the centre of the canvas is a small two-story residential house with walls painted pale yellow, and two slightly smoking chimneys. In front of the porch, in a path cleared through the packed snow, stands a horse hitched to a sleigh. Between the houses Vasnetsov painted tall trees. There is snow everywhere in the painting, on rooftops and branches, and piled high at the green fence.
Appolinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov is a Russian history painter and graphic artist, a master of landscapes and stage sets and a younger brother of the famous painter Viktor Vasnetsov. With his talent and originality, he was never in the shadow of his brother. Vasnetsov the younger studied painting under Vasily Polenov, Ilya Repin and Mark Antokolsky. Instead of enrolling himself in the Imperial Academy of Art in St. Petersburg, he first opted for a place of a provincial teacher, but in 1878 he returned to Moscow to stay with his brother. From that time on Vasnetsov dedicated himself fully to art. His paintings can be found today in the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Historical Museum, Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Museum of History and Reconstruction of the City of Moscow and in provincial museums all across Russia.
The landscape A Small Corner of Moscow. Winter has long been known to experts as in 1958 it was exhibited at the Central House of Art Workers, as suggested by the sticker on the back of the canvas. In 2000, Appolinary Vasnetsov’s landscape was donated to the Arts Gallery of the Generations Foundation in Khanty-Mansiysk and transferred to the State Museum of Fine Arts in 2011.
A Small Corner of Moscow. Winter shows a typical contemporary Moscow courtyard. At the centre of the canvas is a small two-story residential house with walls painted pale yellow, and two slightly smoking chimneys. In front of the porch, in a path cleared through the packed snow, stands a horse hitched to a sleigh. Between the houses Vasnetsov painted tall trees. There is snow everywhere in the painting, on rooftops and branches, and piled high at the green fence.
Appolinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov is a Russian history painter and graphic artist, a master of landscapes and stage sets and a younger brother of the famous painter Viktor Vasnetsov. With his talent and originality, he was never in the shadow of his brother. Vasnetsov the younger studied painting under Vasily Polenov, Ilya Repin and Mark Antokolsky. Instead of enrolling himself in the Imperial Academy of Art in St. Petersburg, he first opted for a place of a provincial teacher, but in 1878 he returned to Moscow to stay with his brother. From that time on Vasnetsov dedicated himself fully to art. His paintings can be found today in the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Historical Museum, Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Museum of History and Reconstruction of the City of Moscow and in provincial museums all across Russia.
The landscape A Small Corner of Moscow. Winter has long been known to experts as in 1958 it was exhibited at the Central House of Art Workers, as suggested by the sticker on the back of the canvas. In 2000, Appolinary Vasnetsov’s landscape was donated to the Arts Gallery of the Generations Foundation in Khanty-Mansiysk and transferred to the State Museum of Fine Arts in 2011.
