Alexei Venetsianov is one of the founders of the Russian genre painting. In 1819 the artist had gone to the small estate of Safonkovo in Tver Gubernia. He was fascinated by the common people, their life and work. Since then his main interest was in genre painting. Rural life provided him witha welath of material and openend up a new world of lyrical Russian countryside. Venetsianov's peasants are idealised - they are all people filled with beauty and nobility of mind, with moral purity and inner itegrity. We ca see these features in Children in the Firld, A Peasant Girl with a Calf, The Reapers.
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