Ilya Repin · 1870–73
Barge Haulers on the Volga
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Eleven peasants harnessed to a sand-running riverboat — Repin's indictment of Russian serfdom-by-other-name, made at twenty-six. Russian Museum.
Up to 16 × 7 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of Barge Haulers on the Volga
Barge Haulers on the Volga or Burlaki is an 1870–1873 oil-on-canvas painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin. It depicts 11 men (burlaki) hauling a barge along the banks of the Volga River. They are at the point of collapse from exhaustion, oppressed by heavy, hot weather.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ilya Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter. He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia in the 19th century. His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873), Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1880–1883), Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885), and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880–1891). He is also known for the revealing portraits he made of the leading Russian literary and artistic figures of his time, including Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Pavel Tretyakov, and especially Leo Tolstoy, with whom he had a long friendship.
All Ilya Repin prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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