Q124654500

Held at Polenovo and undated, this oil on canvas represents work that remained within the artist's own estate-museum collection. The specific designation of the medium as "Oil on canvas" in the source record — more explicit than the bare "canvas" notation for other works — may indicate a formally catalogued work rather than a sketch. Polenovo's collection includes works across the full range of Polenov's career, from student works to late landscapes, providing an exceptional record of his development. Undated works held at the estate often document specific views from the property: the bluffs above the Oka, the estate grounds, the river as seen from the upper terrace, or nearby villages. These topographically precise works are valuable documents of the Oka landscape as it appeared before twentieth-century industrial and agricultural changes.

Oil on canvas, Polenovo's holding. Works in this collection sometimes include preparatory under-drawings in charcoal or diluted paint visible at edges where later layers are thinly applied. Polenov's colour mixing was careful but not overly systematic — he worked empirically toward the tonal relationships he wanted rather than following a theoretical system, and the resulting surface has a naturalistic variety that systematic approaches can miss.