Peasant Gallery

Paying a Visit, 1915, (1939). Creator: Abram Arkhipov

Paying a Visit, 1915, (1939). A group of village women in brightly-coloured clothes and scarves, chatting in a sunlit room. Abram Arkhipov (1862-1930) studied in Moscow and St Petersburg, and was a member of the art collective The Wanderers, and of the Union of Russian Artists. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR. Painting in the collection of The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. From "The Russian State Museum". [State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad, 1939]

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Galway Gossips, c1887, (c1930). Creator: Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow

Galway Gossips, c1887, (c1930). Rural scene in the west of Ireland: a woman on a horse stops to chat to a man leaning on a low wall. Smoke from peat fires issues from the chimneys of thatched cottages, mingling with low-lying mist. Painting in the Tate Gallery, London. From "Modern Masterpieces of British Art". [The Amalgamated Press Ltd., London, c1930]

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Interior of a Serbian peasant house in the vicinity of Belgrade in 1859

XEE4404846 Interior of a Serbian peasant house in the vicinity of Belgrade in 1859. by Unknown Artist, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Interior of a Serbian peasant house in the vicinity of Belgrade in 1859.); Stefano Bianchetti; out of copyright

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