Ilya Repin · 1881
Portrait of Modest Mussorgsky
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The composer in a green hospital dressing gown with a red collar, hair dishevelled and eyes fixed on the viewer, against a plain pale grey-blue background, painted days before his death. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Up to 16 × 20 in · portrait
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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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Portrait of Modest Mussorgsky
Vladimir Stasov asked Repin to paint the composer, who was dying in the Nikolaevsky Military Hospital. Repin painted it in four sittings between 14 and 17 March 1881 (Old Style), a few days before Mussorgsky's death, working at a desk because no easel was available. Pavel Tretyakov bought it for 400 rubles without seeing it; Repin gave the money towards a monument to the composer.
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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