picture of the "Crucifixion" by Nikolai Ge discovered accidentally
In the storerooms of the Novocherkassk Museum accidentally found a picture of Nikolai Ge "Crucifixion". She was more than a hundred years. Now working with the canvas art the Tretyakov Gallery.
Incredibly, Novocherkassk, a unique collection of works of art, has never been and today there is an art museum. And because even the experts do not know about stored in the treasure. It happened with the painting "The Crucifixion" by Nikolai Ge, for which the Don landed researchers from the Tretyakov Gallery.
"So far in the literature, and even in everyday life, this picture does not appear as a genuine work of Nicholas Gay. And since we are working on the exhibition, which takes place in Moscow, we have a fairly large amount of material that gives us the opportunity as a result of studies to confirm the name of the Ge , "- said Lydia Gladkov, head of the department of scientific expertise of the State Tretyakov Gallery.
On this picture, the Tretyakov learned by chance, found in the archive of the artist Chernyshev letter director of the Museum of history of the Don Cossacks of 1961, which states that the museum from 20s kept painting "The Crucifixion" by Nikolai Ge. The letter was accompanied by a small black and white photography. Art critic Tatiana Karpova contacted Novocherkassk colleagues, asking for details of macro picture, signature, and the back of the canvas frame, suggesting that perhaps, it was found that same picture, of which the artist wrote to Leo Tolstoy.
"It was in 1884, he began work on the Passion and wrote to Tolstoy that the thought of two paintings. One -" Crucifixion "and the other on the eve of the coming suffering. This is probably a first version of the picture" Golgotha ", which is in the Tretyakov Gallery. We picked up a number of analogs, including signature look.'s signature ekspertiruemoy our painting "Crucifixion", and this - with a picture of "Peter interrogates Tsarevich Alexei." How do they look like! " - Said Tatiana Karpova, curator of the exhibition "What is truth? Nikolai Ge. By the 180th anniversary of the birth of" the State Tretyakov Gallery.
The work of researchers will continue in Moscow. Radiography is still the canvas. A parallel Novocherkassk Museum historians conduct their search. Because of how the picture got there, survived for more than a century and the revolution and war, and preserved with its own frame, in a museum not yet known.
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