Alexei Danilovich Kivshenko, 1851-1895

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Description

Alexei Danilovich Kivshenko
hunting for young pheasant
signed in Cyrillic l.l.
oil on canvas
55 by 98.5cm., 21¾ by 38¾in.

Catalogue Note

A preparatory oil sketch for this composition from 1888 forms part of the Collection of Yakob and Iosif Rzhevsky, now held in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (see I.A. and Ya.A.Rzhevsky, The Collection of the Rzhevsky Brothers, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2000, Cat. 53, plate 20)