
Ivan Shishkin1832–1898May one see it?
Moscow, Russia
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
1861
Academy Fellowship Abroad: Munich
As a stipendiary of the Academy he went to Munich, where he visited the studios of the popular animal painters, the brothers Benno and Franz Adam.
1863
Zurich: With Koller, First Etchings
He moved to Zurich, where under the guidance of Rudolf Koller he painted animals from life and first tried engraving with aqua regia; from there he made an excursion to Geneva to see the works of Diday and Calame.
1864–1865
Düsseldorf
He moved to Düsseldorf and attended the Düsseldorf art school; his pen drawings were placed in the Düsseldorf museum alongside works by Achenbach and Lessing.
1865
Title of Academician
For "View in the Environs of Düsseldorf," painted in Düsseldorf on commission from the collector N. Bykov, the Imperial Academy of Arts conferred on Shishkin the title of academician.