Repair work on the railway

Repair Work on the Railway is a painting by Russian artist Konstantin Savitsky (1844–1905), completed in 1874. It is held in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (Inventory 590). The dimensions of the painting are 103 × 180.8 cm (100 × 175 cm, according to other sources). The titles Railway Repair, Railway Workers and Repair on the Railway are also used.

The idea for the painting came to Savitsky in the summer of 1873, when he was observing the work of repairing the tracks of the Moscow-Kursk railway near the station of Kozlova Zaseka in the Tula Governorate, where he lived with the artists Ivan Shishkin and Ivan Kramskoi. Savitsky continued to work on the painting until the end of 1873, making the final revisions in January 1874.

The painting Repair Work on the Railway, was presented at the third exhibition of the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki), which opened in St…

摘自英文维基百科「Repair Work on the Railway」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。