Isaac Levitan, August 30, 1860 – August 4, 1900, was a Russian painter associated with landscape painting and the Peredvizhniki.
He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where his teachers included Alexei Savrasov and Vasily Polenov. He was closely associated with Anton Chekhov and with painters including Valentin Serov.
Levitan is best known for Russian landscape paintings often described as “mood landscapes,” including Birch Grove, Evening Bells, The Vladimirka Road, March, and Twilight. Haystacks
Portrait of Isaac Levitan, by Valentin Serov, 1893
Oil on canvas
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Sofia Kuvshinnikova, 1888
Oil on canvas, 34.6 x 22.4 in
Isaac Brodsky Museum-apartment, Saint Petersburg
Autumn Day. Sokolniki, 1879
Oil on canvas, 25.3 x 20.1 in
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Birch Grove, 1885–1889
Oil on canvas, 11.2 x 19.6 in
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
In the Mountains, Crimea, 1886
Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas, 7.9 x 9.2 in
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Evening on the Volga, 1887–1888
Oil on canvas, 19.7 x 31.9 in
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
The Vladimirka Road, 1892
Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 50 in
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Evening Bells, 1892
Oil on canvas, 34.2 x 42.3 in
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Above Eternal Peace. Sketch, 1893
Oil on canvas, 37.4 x 50 in
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
March, 1895
Oil on canvas, 31.7 x 49.2 in
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Stormy Day, 1897
Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 34.4 in
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Twilight. Haystacks, 1899
Oil on cardboard, 23.5 x 29.4 in
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Autumn, 1896
Watercolor on paper, 12.4 x 17.2 in
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
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