Russian landscape with river and the church
 

Landscape with river and the church.
Painting, canvas, oil. 18,5 x 24,5.
Board of pre-revolutionary art store.
Does anyone have any thoughts on the author and creation time.
Can we know the place painted in the picture.
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And in the postmark, if not change the vision, the "Verninskoe art shop? The adjective "Verninskoe, if we take geography, used in relation to the city Faithful, now is Almaty. The plot work, of course, maloprimenimo. "Faithful" Almaty was, if it somehow helps with a one-year break from 1854 to 1921.

It seems to me like Ples.
(only lag about Levitan not need inspiring ...:))

Yeah, exactly, that's the picture:

I immediately thought about Ples.

Yes, very similar to the Resurrection Church. At presented you, Glasha, levitanovskom "Evening" Ples on the other hand - from the St. Barbara Church. I was confused at first presented a discussion paper the size of the Volga, and then I found the photo end of the last century. Now both can be removed, perhaps, somewhere in the middle of a river.

Found out about the place and time can be determined approximately.
I think the end of the 19.
While it is clear that Levitan painted church on the left side if you stand back to the River. A proposed artist, was on the right side, ie in the area of the distant tower (which is a picture Levitan), and perhaps her.
And who knows when Levitan painted his Ples.

Perhaps that is who is from the environment Levitan? And perhaps that someone of the tourists.
With the dramatic development of industry in the Ivanovo region Shuya Ples until the construction in 1871, the railroad Ivanovo-Kineshma was the main port on the Volga for all the textile region. However, after - trade city life subside, making this picturesque region of the favorite resting place of wealthy gentlemen. Development of navigation has attracted a lot of tourists here from bourgeois circles in Moscow. These studies came to many famous artists: Ilya Repin, VV Vereshchagin, IL Levitan.
About the latter said that "Ples glorified Levitan. Levitan glorified Ples ". After the appearance of paintings by Levitan in Ples was a lot of vacationers flock. City distinguished healthy climate, clean fresh air. Beautiful high bank of the Volga, the abundance of fresh food and cultural view of the town made it a favorite of many people, especially Moscow and St. Petersburg.
August 25, 1972 at Pleso was open house-museum of Isaac Levitan. In this house, which belonged to the Revolution merchant Solodovnikova, the artist lived and worked in the summer of 1888-1889 gg. together with his friends - artists, A. Stepanov and SP Kuvshinnikov. Levitan opened this small town to the world after such masterpieces of the Russian landscape as "Evening. Golden Ples", "Silent Resident", etc. All the artist were created for time spent in Pleso about two hundred works, including 23 paintings and numerous drawings, sketches , sketches.

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As to the inscriptions on the cardboard (click to enlarge) It turns out that the first word is .. Initials are not read. Next, type, Verbinski or Verbitsky. Art shop. Then the city did not chitaetsya.Vozmozhno. St. Petersburg, on Fontank (Imagination erupted)
It seeks to have the lists of art shops.

"Evening. Golden Ples", 1889, x /m. 84,2 H142, GTG. (In spelling the word "Ples" is the letter "s".)
Actually, I. Levitan annually in the spring and summer months of 1887-1890 gg. worked on the Volga, in Plessis, which created many works of "Volga cycle. In 1972 they opened Museum Levitan (now Plesskii Museum-Reserve).

Here is another landscape of the place-Plesset.
"After the Rain. Ples.", 1889, s /m, 80H125, GTG.

Thank you, Cyril, and do not you think that these pictures probably painted long before Levitanovskoy. If you look at the trees, then on Levitanovskoy are 10 years older - 20 or older.?
I think this 1860-70 gg. Of course depending what sort of trees.

rolls, about the trees need to ask sergejnowo, he is a graduate of the trees.

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here it is difficult to analyze.
Under ideal conditions, live oak say 300-500 years, pine 150 - 200 years, Birch 100 - 150 years, etc.
In realist painting conditions for trees are far from perfect. In terms of microclimate, and then flood plain, the place is not bad, but the tide, strong wind is a minus for longevity. And the most important factor is people. In one oar broke, another wood ran out, went and cut down on the need. In other words, in a dense forest above the trees and survive, and in the floodplain of the river around human habitation, well, not like.
In the pictures Levitan I seen the stumps of the felled tree. After this "cleansing" the first couple of years, thriving shrub vegetation. This and face Levitan.
This kind of biotope (the set of flora and fauna) optically completely changed every 60-100 years.
Given this feature of nature, if the optical sight Levitan add 60-100 years, we get exactly the kind of postcards from * 4.
I think that the assumption that the landscape Raskatova written earlier than the picture Levitan, logically justified.
But me, to be sure, confusing a low level of prescription details in the landscape Raskatova. This in itself is not a problem, but to compare poorly

Some not. "That distant tower" at Levitan - Resurrection Church is depicted in your picture (if it really Pless). We Levitan is in the foreground - the Church of Barbara.

There are many photos Pleso, called "View from Mount Levitan." That's Fresh. Is likely that the legend is preserved in the people.
But it is unclear, because of its "Golden Ples" is drawn from a different location or a mirror image.
In our picture look like in photographs.
In the last photo, this church is visible from the reverse side of the mountain.

From this mountain Levitan really a lot of draw, loved to depict the church Barbara, but "Vecher.Zolotoy Ples" is drawn from a different place, just downstream of the Volga.
At your painting depicts not Varvara church, repeat. Otherwise, at the forefront of the artist, if he wrote to the church on this side, in abundance would paint houses and other buildings, which at the time of writing is already there (the two churches, about which I have written quite late by the standards of the city itself - the first quarter of the 19 th century) .
If you look on the plan of the city, Pleso in such a perspective in the 19 century it was possible to depict the Resurrection Church. But I do not know whether its bell once bleached.