Girl with Peaches
Girl with Peaches | |
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Artist | Valentin Serov |
Year | 1887 |
Medium | Oil-on-canvas[1] |
Dimensions | 91 cm × 85 cm (36 in × 33 in) |
Location | Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
Girl with Peaches (Russian: Девочка с персиками, romanized: Devochka s Persikami) is an 1887 painting by the Russian painter Valentin Serov.[2]
It is considered to be one of Serov's greatest works[3][4] and one of his most famous.[5][6] Serov's friend and biographer, Russian art historian Igor Grabar, acclaimed it as "the masterpiece of Russian painting".[4][7] According to the book 1000 Drawings of Genius, although the style of the painting (and Serov's early style in general) "has much in common with the French Impressionists, [Serov] did not become acquainted with their work until after he had painted [it]".[8]
History
The painting depicts 11-year-old Vera Mamontova, a daughter of Russian entrepreneur and patron of the arts Savva Mamontov.[2][9]
It was painted at
Valentin Serov knew Vera Mamontova from her babyhood, as he frequently visited Mamontov's Abramtsevo estate, and sometimes he even lived there for lengthy periods of time.[10]
Serov later recalled,
All I wanted was freshness, that special freshness that you can always feel in real life and don't see in paintings. I painted it for over a month and tortured her, poor child, to death, because I wanted to preserve the freshness in the finished painting, as you can see in old works by great masters.[11][12]
In 1887 the painting won first prize at the Exhibition of the Moscow Society of Lovers of Art.[4][7]
The model, Vera Mamontova, was also painted by Viktor Vasnetsov in 'Girl With a Maple Branch' (1896). Vera married the head of the Moscow Nobility League, future Chief Prosecutor of the Most Holy Synod Alexander Dmitrievich Samarin in 1903.[13] They had three children. In 1907, at the age of 32, she contracted pneumonia and died just a few days later.[14] She is buried in Abramtsevo.[10][13][15]
Internet meme
The painting spawned a Russian Internet meme,[5][16] in which the girl is placed into humorous scenarios or is replaced by a different person or character. One of the altered pictures depicted the girl sitting at a very large table covered with all sorts of dishes and was titled "The Girl with Peaches: Full Version".[17]
References
- ISBN 978-1-86189-213-3.
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- ^ ISBN 978-1-85336-084-8.
- ^ Argumenty i Facty. 2016-01-20.
- ^ "10 женщин со знаменитых картин, о чьих судьбах мы не знали". Archived from the original on 2022-02-18. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8130-1255-1.
- ISBN 978-5-457-76680-8.
- ^ "The "Girl with Peaches": who is she?". No. #3 2015 (48). The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine. 2015. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
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(help) - ^ a b c d "12 интересных фактов о "Девочке с персиками"". Vokrug Sveta. December 16, 2016. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
- ^ Art-каталог: живопись и графика
- ISBN 978-5-87107-184-7.
- ^ a b "Пять тайн "Девочки с персиками": что стало с героиней знаменитой картины Серова – Телеканал "Звезда"". 25 January 2016.
- ^ Manaev, G. (2019-05-07). "Most famous Russian paintings explained: 'Girl With Peaches' by Valentin Serov". Russia Beyond The Headlines. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- ^ "Как сложилась судьба "девочки с персиками": 7 удивительных фактов о самой известной картине Серова".
- ^ Смирнов, Дмитрий (18 January 2016). "Путин посоветовал Мединскому посмотреть фотожабу на "Девочка с персиками"". Kp.ru -.
- ^ "Путин продемонстрировал знание интернет-шуток". ГЛАГОЛ. 2016-01-19. Archived from the original on 2017-01-03.
External links
- Girls with Peaches on the Tretyakov Gallery's website