Ilya RepinUkrainian, 1844–1930Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Tretyakov Gallery
Moscow, Russia
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 is a painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin made between 1883 and 1885. It depicts the grief-stricken Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, the Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, shortly after Ivan the Terrible had dealt a fatal blow to his son's head in a fit of anger. The painting portrays the anguish and remorse on the face of the elder Ivan and the shock and heartbreak of the dying Tsarevich, who sheds a tear at the unexpected betrayal and shock of having been killed at his father's hands.
Repin used Grigoriy Myasoyedov, his friend and fellow artist, as the model for Ivan the Terrible, and writer Vsevolod Garshin for the Tsarevich. In 1885, upon completion of the oil-on-canvas work, Repin sold it to Pavel Tretyakov for display in his Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
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It has been called one of Russia's most famous and controversial paintings, and is normally on display in the Tretyakov Gallery.
Particulars
- Accession number
- 743
Sources
- Tretyakov Gallery: the museum's own open data · fetched 3 days ago
- Image: Tretyakov Gallery — Museum open access
Meanwhile, in the life of Ilya Repin
The whole life2 – 5 March 1881
Portrait of Mussorgsky in the hospital
Upon learning from Stasov of the composer's grave condition, he immediately left for St. Petersburg and painted the portrait at a hospital table in four days. Mussorgsky died a few days later.
autumn 1882
Return to St. Petersburg
The 38-year-old artist returned from Moscow with sketches for "The Zaporozhian Cossacks," "Arrest of a Propagandist," "Ivan the Terrible," and hundreds of studies.
1883
«Krestnyy khod v Kurskoy gubernii» na vystavke
Над картиной, которую он поначалу называл «Чудотворной иконой», Репин работал три года, собирая материал в Курской губернии, Киеве и Чернигове; в ней выделяется не менее семидесяти фигур с ясными характерами. «Новое время» увидело в полотне не беспристрастный образ действительности, а лишь изобличение взглядов художника, а Игорь Грабарь позже считал, что оно закрепило за Репиным репутацию первого художника России.
1883–1888
"Unexpected Visitors"
He repainted the protagonist's head many times — even secretly from Tretyakov in the gallery hall — striving for a "transition from joy to astonishment."
1885
"Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan" — and an imperial ban
Shown at the 13th Peredvizhniki exhibition; Alexander III ordered it "barred from exhibitions." Thanks to the efforts of cultural figures, the ban was lifted.
1885
Litsa dlya «Ivana Groznogo»: Myasoyedov i Garshin
Замысел возник после концерта Римского-Корсакова: его музыкальная трилогия — любовь, власть и месть — так впечатлила Репина, что захотелось создать в живописи нечто равное по силе. Для Ивана он взял черты Григория Мясоедова, для царевича — Владимира Менка и Всеволода Гаршина: в лице писателя его поразила обречённость.
