Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926)

Kiribeevich and Alena Dmitrievna from The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov

細節

Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926)
Kiribeevich and Alena Dmitrievna from The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov
signed in Cyrillic and dated 'Viktor Vasnetsov/1891' (lower left)
charcoal on paper
27½ x 19¾ in. (50 x 70 cm.)
Drawn in 1891

來源

Leo Maskovskii (1882-1972), Riga.
By descent to the present owner.

出版

Exhibition catalogue, Vystavka russkoi zhivopisi dvukh poslednykh stoletii (An exhibition of Russian Art from the last 200 years), Riga, 1932, listed p. 17, no. 221.
N. Morgunov, Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, Moscow, 1962, p. 433, no. 2.

展覽

Riga, Riga City Art Museum, Vystavka russkoi zhivopisi dvukh poslednykh stoletii (An exhibition of Russian Art from the last 200 years), 4-18 December 1932, no. 221.

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拍品專文

The present work is one of four illustrations Vasnetsov produced to illustrate Mikhail Lermontov's (1814-1841) A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilievich, the Young Oprichnik, and the Valorous Merchant Kalashnikov, often known as The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, in a collection of Lermontov's essays published by I. N. Kushnerev. Ivan Aivazovsky and Vasnetsov's younger brother, Apollinary, also produced illustrations for the publication. Written in 1837, Lermontov's poem tells the story of Kiribeevich, a member of the Tsar's guard who has abducted Alena, the wife of the merchant Kalashnikov. A fist-fight ensues and Kiribeevich is killed. Despite Alena's pleas, Kalashnikov is condemned to death.