On the Sea of Galilee
Print detail, actual size
To scale 31 x 20 in on the wall
Representative Hand-applied gesso embellishment
About the Artwork
Polenov traveled extensively through Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Egypt between 1881 and 1882, gathering drawings, oil sketches, and photographs in preparation for a monumental cycle of paintings on the life of Christ. On the Sea of Galilee emerged from that journey as one of the most resolved landscape paintings of the cycle, exhibited alongside the larger narrative works at the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions, the Peredvizhniki (Wanderers), of which Polenov was a prominent member. The Wanderers had committed themselves to an art of social and moral seriousness, rejecting the decorative academicism of the Imperial Academy, and Polenov's Palestinian landscapes served that mission in an unexpected register: rather than staging biblical drama, they placed scripture in a geographically precise, climatically accurate natural world. The approach was quietly radical. Critics noted that the Sea of Galilee looked exactly as reported by travelers, and the luminous calm of the painting gave his contemporaries a sense of documentary witness rather than theatrical invention. The work belongs to the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, where it remains one of Polenov's most celebrated canvases.
Product Specifications
- Finished size
- 31 x 20 in
- Frame
- Gold, premium resin, mitred
- Canvas
- Heavyweight Fredrix poly/cotton
- Finish
- Hand-applied gesso embellishment
- Inks
- Archival HP Latex, 100-year colorfastness
- Stretcher
- Solid poplar, kiln dried
- Hanging
- Wire and dust cover fitted
- Item
- 1940821
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