Isaac Levitan1860–1900Поля
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Vyatskiy Art Museum
Kirov, Russia
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
- Sep 29, 2026
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
Particulars
- Accession number
- Ж-166
Sources
- The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia · fetched 3 days ago
- Image: Vyatskiy Art Museum — © Вятский художественный музей имени В. М. и А. М. Васнецовых · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ
Meanwhile, in the life of Isaac Levitan
The whole lifeMarch 1897
Chekhov the doctor: “Things look bad”
In early March 1897 Chekhov, having examined Levitan, writes in a letter that things look bad: his heart does not beat but blows. In the same days Levitan is in Moscow, meeting P. M. Tretyakov.
1898
The title of academician and teaching at his old school
He is awarded the title of academician of landscape painting and begins teaching at the very school where he studied; he dreams of creating a “House of Landscapes” — a large studio where all Russian landscape painters could work.
winter 1899
Yalta: doctors send him south
In winter 1899 doctors send Levitan to Yalta, where Chekhov is living; the old friends meet with a certain estrangement. Levitan walks leaning heavily on a stick, gasps for breath and speaks of his approaching death; Yalta does not help and he returns to Moscow.
8 – 17 May 1900
Chekhov visits the gravely ill Levitan
From 8 to 17 May 1900 Chekhov visits the gravely ill Levitan, who hardly leaves his house in Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane.
summer 1900
Paintings at the World Exhibition in Paris
All summer, from June 1900, Levitan's paintings are shown in the Russian section of the World Exhibition in Paris.
22 July 1900
Died
