1871
unspecified
From the collection of Tretyakov Gallery
Dominant colour
Peter the Great Interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof is a 1871 unspecified by Nikolai Ge, a Realism work, held at Tretyakov Gallery.
This painting shows two men in a room with a checkered floor. The man on the left is standing and wearing a long black coat, while the man on the right is sitting in a red chair. There's a table with papers and a quill pen between them. The man standing looks serious, and the man sitting seems worried. The room has dark walls with some paintings on them, but it's hard to see what they are. This painting makes me think of the artist Nikolai Ge, who created it in 1871.
The painting Peter the Great Interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof was created by the Russian artist Nikolai Ge (1831–1894) and completed in 1871. The painting is stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (Inventory 2630). The dimensions of the painting are 135.7 cm by 173 cm (according to other data, 134.8 cm by 172.7 cm). Ge's work offers a psychological interpretation of a historical drama set in 1718. The painting depicts Peter I and his son Alexei Petrovich, who has been accused of preparing to seize power, in the interior of the Monplaisir Palace in Peterhof.…
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By the beginning of 1870, Nikolai Ge had returned to Russia from Italy, where he had resided and worked between 1857 and 1863 and again between 1864 and 1869. His final relocation occurred in May 1870, when he and his family settled on Vasilyevsky Island in St Petersburg. During this period, Ge became acquainted with a number of progressive artists and writers, and subsequently became one of the founders of the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions. In his oeuvre, subjects related to the Russian history of the 18th and 19th centuries began to emerge. One of the earliest works on this theme…
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Nikolai Ge was preparing the painting Peter the Great Interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof to be exhibited at the 1st exhibition of the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki). The opening of the exhibition was postponed on several occasions, but finally took place in St Petersburg on 29 November 1871. In April 1872, the exhibition moved to Moscow. The St Petersburg part of the exhibition was held in the building of the Imperial Academy of Arts, while the Moscow part was held in the premises of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In…
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Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (Russian: Николай Николаевич Ге; 27 February 1831 – 13 June 1894) was a Russian painter who was influential in the development of Russian symbolism. He was famous for his works on historical and religious subjects.
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