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Ilya Repin · 1880–91

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

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Cossacks roaring with laughter around a table as a young scribe writes their insulting reply to the Ottoman sultan, pipes smoking and faces crowded into a huge, boisterous canvas. State Russian Museum.

Up to 20.3 × 12 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

20.3″12″

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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 Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Repin worked on the picture from 1880 to 1891, on a canvas of 203 x 358 cm, after extensive research, and made a second version meant to be more historically accurate (now in the Kharkiv Art Museum). It shows the Zaporozhian Cossacks composing their defiant reply to Sultan Mehmed IV after their victory in 1676, and the image has inspired many parodies.

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.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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