Hunters at Rest

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Vasily Perov
December 23, 1833 (January 4, 1834), Tobolsk - May 29 (June 10), 1882, p. Kuzminki near Moscow

The painting depicts three hunters who are talking to each other. One of them (on the left) - an elderly, experienced hunter, with enthusiasm and a passion for telling his hunting "exploits", the second (in the background) - a middle-aged, in a Russian peasant clothes, and with a smirk in disbelief listening hunting tales of his companion, the third same (right) - dressed "immaculately" gullible young novice, with trembling auscultating stories first hunter, so zamorochitsya him that he even forgets to light a cigarette in his right hand harvested in the left flame.

In the image of the narrator Perov portrayed Dmitri Pavlovich Kuvshinnikova - known in Moscow police doctor and a great lover of hunting rifle. Once, in 1871, the painting was exhibited at the first traveling exhibition Kuvshinnikova name became popular in the literary, artistic and theatrical circles. His apartment in the Lesser Three Hierarchs Lane became a gathering place for writers, artists, artisty.Anton Chekhov spouses Kuvshinnikova immortalized in "The Grasshopper" (1891) - which caused a quarrel writer and Levitan, who was at that time admirer of Sophia Kuvshinnikova.

The prototype of the hunter-skeptic became one Kuvshinnikova, a physician and amateur painter Vasily Bessonov. In 1869, a portrait of Perov Bessonova, who later exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris with a cloth "Hunters at Rest." His son, an artist and a member of several expeditions to the Urals, Boris Bessonov (1862 - 1934), studied at Perova.Posle Parizhe.Mnogie Revolution lived in his work is now in the art museums of France and England.

The image shows a young hunter 26 year old doctor NM Nagorny - each Kuvshinnikova and Bessonova. In 1872, Nikolai Mikhailovich married Barbara V. Tolstoy, niece of the great writer. In the early 90-ies of the 19th century Nagornov joins the Moscow city government.

Hunters at Rest 1871
Oil on canvas
119 x 183
TG