Title

The Ale-house at the Toll-bridge', 1868, (1965).

Caption

'The Ale-house at the Toll-bridge', 1868, (1965). A Russian peasant woman sits huddled in a scarf on a sledge, waiting in the cold for her husband who is spending their meagre wages on drink in the tavern. In the distance, Tsarist eagles are silhouetted against the sunset. Painting, also known as 'The Last Tavern at the City Gates', in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. From "Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]

Date

1965

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F10_312

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

62,2Mb (2,2Mb) / 17,8in x 13,6in / 5331 x 4077 (300dpi)

Keywords

oil landscape weather transport transportation sunset exterior outdoors animal road building season female women woman people animals horses waiting cold symbolic town painting light country sun dark snow pub symbol dog science evening bridge solar system astronomy public house color lane twilight avenue poor poverty entrance gate location miserable century Russia Russian sledge lady concept peasant peasants sled time of day powerless tavern setting sun Sixties wintry road Transport Colour Realism 19th century toll bridge 1960s 20th century nineteenth century The Print Collector artistic movement winter outside street landscape oil Vasily Perov Vasily Grigorevich Perov Perov Vasily Perov Vassili Grigorievich Vassili Grigorievich Perov Vladimir Fiala Fiala Vladimir Artia Vasili Grigoryevich Perov Perov Vasili Grigoryevich travois