Lake. Russia
Isaac Levitan · 1899
Isaac Levitan
Russian Empire · 1860–1900
Isaac Ilyich Levitan was a Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". == Life and work == === Youth === Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kibarty, Augustów Governorate in Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania) into a poor but educated Jewish family. His father Elyashiv Levitan was the son of a rabbi, completed a Yeshiva and was self-educated. He taught German and French in 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.
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Lake. Russia
Isaac Levitan · 1899
State Russian Museum
Evening Bells
Isaac Levitan · 1892
Tretyakov Gallery
The Vladimirka
Isaac Levitan · 1892
Tretyakov Gallery
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Lake. Russia
Isaac Levitan · 1899
State Russian Museum
Lake is a painting by the Russian artist Isaac Levitan (1860 to 1900), which he worked on in 1899 to 1900. It is currently held in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (Inventory Zh-4262). The painting measures 149 × 208 cm.
Evening Bells
Isaac Levitan · 1892
Tretyakov Gallery
Evening Bells is an 1892 oil painting by the Russian artist Isaac Levitan. The painting depicts a monastery standing by a river bend in the evening light. It is thought to be a variation of an earlier painting from 1890, Quiet Abode, which depicted a similar monastery.
The Vladimirka
Isaac Levitan · 1892
Tretyakov Gallery
Vladimirka is an 1892 oil painting by the Russian artist Isaac Levitan. The painting depicts the Vladimir Highway, a dirt road leading east from Moscow to Vladimir. Vladimirka is one of three large paintings by Levitan completed in the first half of the 1890s.
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