Rye Fields

Rye (Russian: Рожь), sometimes A Rye Field, is an oil painting finished in 1878 by the Russian painter Ivan Shishkin. It depicts a field of rye near the village of Lekarevo, west of Yelabuga in Tatarstan. It measures 107 cm × 187 cm (42 in × 74 in) and is held by the Tretyakov Gallery.

Shishkin was born in 1832 into a Russian merchant family in Yelabuga, then in Vyatka Governorate (today the Republic of Tatarstan), beside the Kama River some 200 km (120 mi) east of Kazan. As with many of his works, this painting draws from the countryside near his early home. It includes two common elements from Shishkin's work: pine trees, and a road leading away from the viewer. Two earlier works in the collection of the Tretyakov, made by Shishkin in the 1860s, show travellers among fields of rye.

The work is based on a pencil sketch of a field of rye near Lekarevo, which the artist made during a tr…

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