Constantin Andreevich Somov was born in St. Petersburg on November 30, 1869 into the family of the senior curator at the Hermitage, artist and art historian, Andrei Ivanovich Somov and his wife, Nadezhda Constantinovna, an excellent musician. The family had a big collection of paintings, etchings, watercolors, big library; the artists were frequent guests in the house. Constantin started to learn to play piano, singing, and painting early.
1896. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
1896. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1896. Watercolor and lead prncil on paper pasted on cardboard. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1896. Watercolor on paper pasted on cardboard. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1896. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1897. Oil on canvas pasted on cardboard. Private collection.
1896. Charcoal, pastel on paper. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1897. Pastel, mixed media on cardboard. The Picture Gallery of Armenia, Erevan, Armenia.
1897. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1897. Watercolor on cardboard. Private collection.
1897-1900. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
1898. Watercolor, pastel, pencil on paper. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1898. Watercolor, gouache, pencil on paper. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1898-99. Watercolor, gold paint, and varnish on cardboard. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1900-02. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1900-1917. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1900. Oil on cardboard. The A. N. Radishchev Museum of Arts, Saratov, Russia.
1900. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1900. Watecolor and gouache on paper. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1901. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Constantin Somov by irina Pruzhan. Moscow, 1972.
‘The World of Art’ Movement. by Vsevolod Petrov and Alexander Kamensky. Aurora Art Publishers. Leningrad. 1991.