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