Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy is an outstanding representative of the democratic culture in Russia of the second half of the 19th century. He is known as a wonderful painter and draughtsman, a remarkable art critic and theoretician of art, a talented teacher. Besides, he was an originator and ardent inspirer of the first independent artistic organizations, namely the Itinerants’ Society of Traveling Exhibitions and St. Petersburg Team of Artists, which had played an important part in the development of art in Russia.
1863. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1863. Oil on canvas. Art Museum, Kuibyshev, Russia.
1867. Oil on paper. The Perm Art Gallery, Perm, Russia.
1867. Oil on canvas. Museum-Estate of V. Polenov, Tula region, Russia.
1867. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1868. Oil on canvas. State Museum of Byelorussia, Minsk, Belorussia.
1868. Oil on canvas. Morava Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
1870. Watercolor on cardboard. The Perm Art Gallery, Perm, Russia.
1871. Based on Night in May by Nikolai Gogol. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1871. Oil on cardboard. Ivan Kramskoy Museum of Fine Arts, Voronezh, Russia.
1871. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1871. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine.
1872. Study. Oil on canvas. The Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia.
1872. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1872. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
1872. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1872. Oil on canvas. Ivan Kramskoy Museum of Fine Arts, Voronezh, Russia.
1872. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1873. Ivan Kramskoy Museum of Fine Arts, Voronezh, Russia.
1873. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Kramskoy. by T. Kurochkina. Russian Painters of the XIX century. Moscow. 1989.
The Art and Architecture of Russia (Pelican History Art) by George Heard Hamilton. Yale Univ Pr, 1992.
A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists 1420-1970 by John Milner. Antique Collectors' Club, 1993.