Exhibition "Russian Art of the 19th–early 20th Centuries"

About exhibition

A distinctive feature of the permanent exhibition is the little-known works of visual art by well-known Russian masters. Their scholarly and artistic significance is indisputable. The earlier works are dated to the first third of the 19th century; these are painted portraits whose authors are unknown. The second half of the 19th century is represented by masters of academic landscape painting of the St. Petersburg school, among them A. I. Meshchersky, L. F. Lagorio, A. S. Yegornov, Yu. Yu. Klever. The work of the itinerant painters (Peredvizhniki) G. G. Myasoedov, P. A. Bryullov, and N. N. Dubovskoy is conveyed in the exhibition by a biblical scene of Mary Magdalene and by landscapes. The Moscow school of painting of the late 19th–early 20th centuries is represented by realistic landscapes and genre compositions by L. V. Turzhansky, A. P. Ryabushkin, Kh. P. Platonov, and A. V. Moravov. The exhibition includes 34 paintings and 9 works of small-scale sculpture: bas-reliefs by F. P. Tolstoy and sculptural compositions by E. A. Lansere, I. Ya. Ginzburg, and V. Ya. Grachev. The exhibition is organized on a chronological principle that helps to reveal the development of Russian fine art from the beginning of the 19th century up to 1915.