Alexey Kondratyevich Savrasov is one of the Russia’s most remarkable landscape painters, the originator of the so-called ‘mood landscape’. Savrasov was born into the family of a merchant. He began to draw early; in 1838 he enrolled as a student at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture (graduated in 1850), and immediately began to specialize in landscape painting. His efforts of the 1850s reveal the difficult process he was going through trying to overcome the academic tradition in depicting landscape.
1850. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1851. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1852. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1854. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1854. Watercolour on paper. Private collection, Moscow, Russia.
1855. Oil on paper, mounted on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1850s. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Moscow, Russia.
1859. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1862. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1860s. Gouache on paper. Private collection, Moscow, Russia.
1867. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1867. Black and lead pencil on tinted paper. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1868. Oil on canvas. Arts Museum, Kharkov, Ukraine.
1869. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Moscow, Russia.
1871. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1871. Oil on canvas. Arts Museum, Gorky, Russia.
1871. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Moscow, Russia.
1870s. Oil on canvas. The Belorussian Museum of Arts, Minsk, Belarus.
1871. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1872. Oil on canvas. The Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia.
Savrasov by F. Maltseva. Russian Painters of the XIX century. Moscow. 1989.
Alexey Savrasov by F. Maltseva. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1977.