Nikolay Nikolayevich Gay, a Russian artist, was born into a noble family of French origin: his great-grandfather emigrated from France at the end of the 18th century during the Great French Revolution. The parents of Gay died when he was still a child. He was brought up by his serf nurse, who taught him, as he later said, compassion for the humiliated and insulted, a keen sense of other people’s sorrows.
1852. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine. Read Note.
1854. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine. Read Note.
1854. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine.
1855. Oil on canvas. The Art Museum of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus. Read Note.
1856. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine.
1855. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1857. Oil on canvas. The Art Museum of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus.
1858. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine.
1858. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1862. Study. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1862. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine.
1863. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1864. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine.
1867. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine.
1867. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
1867. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
1867. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1868. Oil on canvas. The Taganrog Picture Gallery, Taganrog, Russia.
1868. Oil on paper mounted on cardboard. The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine.
1868. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Gay. by N. Zograf. Leningrad. 1968. (in Russian)
Nikolai Gay. by V. Porudominsky. Moscow. 1970. (in Russian)
Gay. by A.Verezhagina. Russian Painters of the XIX century. Moscow. 1988. (in Russian)
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.