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| A Sorcerer comes to a peasant wedding | |
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| Artist | Vassily Maximov |
| Year | 1875 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 188 cm × 116 cm (74 in × 46 in) |
| Location | State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding is a painting by the Russian artist Vassily Maximov (1844–1911), completed in 1875. It belongs to the State Tretyakov Gallery (inventory number 585). The size of the canvas is 116×188 cm[1] (according to other data - 117.7×189.8 cm).[2][3] The painting depicts an episode of a peasant wedding feast, the joyful course of which is disturbed by the sudden appearance of a snow-covered village sorcerer.[4][5]
Maximov worked on this painting in 1871–1875 and it was presented at 4th Travelling Exhibitions,[6] which opened in St. Petersburg in February 1875.[7][8] Maximov's work made a good impression — in particular, the critic Adrian Prakhov wrote that the painting was "conceived and painted as if his popular imagination had created it".[9][4] Immediately after the exhibition, the canvas was bought from the artist by Pavel Tretyakov.[10][11] In 1878 the painting A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding was included in the Russian exposition at the World Exhibition in Paris.[1]
Critic Vladimir Stasov wrote that this painting was a profound and talented picture of "village faith and that domestic spirit which generations of centuries live at home, in remote villages"; in his opinion, it is "the best, most important and most significant" of what Maximov created.[12] Ethnographer Sergey Tokarev noted that in this work the artist "managed to convey extremely expressively and aptly those mixed feelings of superstitious fear, anxiety in the face of some out-of-place power, but at the same time and reverence, which causes all the personality of the old sorcerer who suddenly appeared in the midst of the wedding festivities..."[13] The art historian Dmitry Sarabianov considered the painting A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding to be Maximov's best work and wrote that this canvas brought its author universal fame and placed him "in the first ranks of Russian artists-realists".[14]
- ^ a b Государственная Третьяковская галерея — каталог собрания / Я. В. Брук, Л. И. Иовлева. — М.: Красная площадь, 2001. — Т. 4: Живопись второй половины XIX века, book 1, А—М. — 528 p. — pp. 420-421. — ISBN 5-900743-56-X.
- ^ Максимов Василий Максимович — Приход колдуна на крестьянскую свадьбу (HTML). Государственная Третьяковская галерея — www.tretyakovgallery.ru. Дата обращения: 26 November 2020. Archive: 26 October 2020.
- ^ Максимов Василий Максимович — «Приход колдуна на крестьянскую свадьбу» (1875) (HTML). Государственный каталог Музейного фонда Российской Федерации — goskatalog.ru. Дата обращения: 17 April 2021. Archive: 22 June 2019.
- ^ a b Леонов (1951, p. 185)
- ^ Алдонина (2007, p. 25)
- ^ Алдонина (2007, p. 47)
- ^ Товарищество передвижных художественных выставок. Письма, документы. 1869—1899 / В. В. Андреева, М. В. Астафьева, С. Н. Гольдштейн, Н. Л. Приймак. — М.: Искусство, 1987. — P. 125.
- ^ Рогинская (1989, p. 418)
- ^ Прахов (1875, p. 122)
- ^ Государственная Третьяковская галерея — каталог собрания / Я. В. Брук, Л. И. Иовлева. — М.: Красная площадь, 2001. — Т. 4: Живопись второй половины XIX века, book 1, А—М. — 528 p. — P. 435. — ISBN 5-900743-56-X.
- ^ Леонов (1951, p. 189)
- ^ Стасов (1950, p. 499)
- ^ Токарев (2012, p. 21)
- ^ Сарабьянов (1955, p. 136)