A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding

A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding is a painting by the Russian artist Vassily Maximov (1844–1911), completed in 1875. It belongs to the State Tretyakov Gallery (inventory number 585). The size of the canvas is 116×188 cm (according to other data - 117.7×189.8 cm). The painting depicts an episode of a peasant wedding feast, the joyful course of which is disturbed by the sudden appearance of a snow-covered village sorcerer.

Maximov worked on this painting in 1871–1875 and it was presented at 4th Travelling Exhibitions, which opened in St. Petersburg in February 1875. Maximov's work made a good impression — in particular, the critic Adrian Prakhov wrote that the painting was "conceived and painted as if his popular imagination had created it". Immediately after the exhibition, the canvas was bought from the artist by Pavel Tretyakov. In 1878 the painting A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wed…

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