Vasily Surikov · 1891
Taking a Snow Town
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A Siberian Shrovetide game at its climax: a rider on a black horse bursts through the snow rampart while villagers in fur coats and bright shawls shout and tumble around him, a sledge with a flowered rug at the right. State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
Up to 14.4 × 8 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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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 Taking a Snow Town
Taking a Snow Town was completed in 1891 and is kept in the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg; the canvas measures 156 x 282 cm. It shows the climax of an old game played by the Siberian Cossacks on the last day of Maslenitsa, which Surikov had watched as a child in Krasnoyarsk. In 1899 the collector Vladimir von Meck bought it, and in 1908 it entered the Russian Museum.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vasily Surikov
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov was a Russian Realist painter, active in Moscow during Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II's reigns, renowned for his large history pictures. Many of his works have become familiar to the general public through their use as illustrations.
All Vasily Surikov prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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