Russian Sculpture

A peasant dragging a sled with barrels. Composition

    A peasant dragging a sled with barrels. Composition

    Russia, St. Petersburg

    Late 1890s – first half of the 1900s

    Grachev, Vasiliy, Woerffel bronze and lapidary art factory

    Bronze; casting, patinating

    32 x 38.7 x 12.5 cm

    On the rectangular base: ЛЕП. ГРАЧЕВЪ

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    On a rectangular base (plinth) with a convex relief ground, there is a sculptural composition depicting a side-looking peasant with a mustache and a beard, wearing an armyak coat, ports (trousers), bast shoes (lapti) with onuchi (foot wraps), and mittens, with a hat on his head, dragging a sleigh loaded with three barrels. In his right hand is a hook (?) with reins tied to it, while his left hand holds the collar of his armyak coat.

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