Friday, December 22, 2017

Snow in Russia - paintings by Isaac Levitan


Forest in the winter, 1885.

I've posted about Levitan before; he was certainly one of the very greatest landscape artists of all time. This is just a small selection of his paintings of... snow!

Early Spring, 1898.
The Last Snow; Village of Savvinskaya., 1884.
Garden in the Snow, circa 1880s.
Countryside; Winter, 1877-1878.
The Tomb of Nadia Yakovleva, 1882.
Springtime; The Last Snow, 1895.
Gray Day, 1895.
Early March, 1900.
Horse-Drawn Sled in the Winter.
Winter, 1895.
Winter Landscape with Mill, 1884.
Boulevard in the Evening, 1883.
March, 1895.
Winter Landscape; Hunters in the Snow, 1876.



3 comments:

  1. Although I am super weary about snow, these are enchanting paintings that I could look at all day. Thank you!

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  2. Enchanting, indeed! Love your eye. Wishing you wonderful holidays. D

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  3. I truly loved many of the Levitan landscapes that you posted earlier. Impressionistic yes, but his colours, light and shade were beautifully naturalistic.

    Not with snowy scenes, however. Colour, light and shade didn't disappear but the energy of his landscapes weakened.

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