Lot 41: Vasily Vereshchagin (1842-1904)

Vasily Vereshchagin (1842-1904)
Crucifixion by the Romans
oil on canvas
118½ x 158 in. (301 x 401.3 cm.)
Painted in 1887

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Exhibition of the Works of Vassili Verestchagin, 1887, no. 94f.
New York, American Art Galleries, Exhibition of the Works of Vassili Verestchagin, November-December 1888, no. 91 (travelling exhibition, visiting the Chicago Art Institute, January-March 1889, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as well as locations in St Louis, Baltimore and Boston among others).
New York, American Art Galleries, Vassili Verestchagin Collection, November 1891, no. 105.

Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of the Works of Vassili Verestchagin, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1887, listed p. 62, no. 94f.
Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of the Works of Vassili Verestchagin, American Art Galleries, New York, 1888, listed p. 63, no. 91.
'Artist and Traveler: Vasili Verestchagin's Paintings to be Exhibited Here', New York Times, 9 November 1888, p. 8.
'Verestchagin's Paintings', New York Times, 9 November 1888, p. 5. 'Art Sensation: Pictures, Personality, and Ideas of Verestchagin', Chicago Daily Tribune, 26 November 1888, p. 9.
'The Verestchagin Art Exhibit: An Effort Being Made to Have the Works Brought Here', Chicago Daily Tribune, 10 December 1888, p. 1.
'Chicago Will See Them', Chicago Daily Tribune, 23 December 1888, p. 24.
Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of the Works of Vassili Verestchagin, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1889, listed p. 63, no. 91.
S. Broad, 'Art from Russia: Verestchagin's Pictures in Chicago', The Daily Northwestern, 4 February 1889.
Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of the Works of Vassili Verestchagin, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1889, listed p. 63, no. 91.
'Gems of Art: Verestchagin Collection Here at Last', Boston Daily Globe, 16 October 1890, p. 3.
Exhibition catalogue, Vassili Verestchagin Collection, American Art Galleries, New York, 1891, listed p. 66, no. 105.
'The Verestchagin Sale. Livelier Bidding on the Second Evening - The
Prices Realized', New York Times, 19 November 1891, p. 5.
'The Verestchagin Sale', The Critic, vol. XVI, no. 413, 28 November 1891, p. 309.
'The Verestchagin Sale', The Collector, vol. III, no. 3, 1 December 1891, p. 41.
'Jottings', London Mercury, 5 December 1891, p. 14.
'Art and Artists', The Boston Sunday Globe, 27 December 1891.
'The Collection of Mr J. W. Brown, Brooklyn, N. Y.', The Collector and Art Critic, vol. I, no. 3, 15 May 1899, p. 41.
Bulgakov, F., V. V. Vereshchagin i ego proizvedeniia [V. V. Vereshchagin and his works], St Petersburg, 1896, illustrated p. 97. Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, The Eighteenth Yearbook. Brooklyn: The Institute, 1906, p. 224.
'Unveil Kaiser's Gift to Brooklyn Museum', New York Times, 17 June 1906, p. 9.
Goodyear, W., Catalogue of Paintings: Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Brooklyn: The Museum, 1906, no. 262, p. 49.
Goodyear, W., Savage, A. D., Catalogue of Paintings: Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Brooklyn: The Museum, 1910, no. 485, p. 83.
Baylen, J., Weyant, J., 'Vasili Vereshchagin in the United States', Russian Review, vol. XXX, no. 3, July 1971, p. 251.
Bénézit, E., Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, Paris, 1976, vol. X, p. 695.
Randall, F., Russia's Forgotten Pacifist Painter, Unpublished typescript, June 1981, p. 4.
Lebedev A. K., Vasilii Vasilievich Vereshchagin, Zhizn' i Tvorchestvo [Life and Work], Moscow, 1958, pp. 220, 222 & 224, illustrated p. 221.
V. V. Vereshchagin, Vospominaniia Syna Khudozhnika [The Memories of an Artist's Son], Leningrad, 1978, p. 162.
V. V. Vereshchagin, Izbrannye Pis'ma [Selected Letters], Moscow, 1981, p. 154.
Zavadskaia, E. B., Vasilii Vasilevich Vereschagin, Moscow, 1986, pp. 32-34, illustrated p. [92].
Lebedev A. K., Solodovnikov A. V., Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagin, Moscow, 1988, p. 146, illustrated pp. 139 (detail) & 144.
Barooshian, V., V. V. Vereshchagin: Artist at War, Gainesville,
1993, pp. 98-99, 104, 107 & 121, illustrated p. 99, no. 18.
V. Volodarskii, Vasilii Vereshchagin, Moscow, 2000, illustrated p. 41.
Dolkart, J. (ed.), Tissot, J., The Life of Christ, The Complete Set of 350 Watercolours, London and New York, 2009, pp. 20-21.
A. Kudrya, Vereshchagin: Zhizn' Zamechatel'nykh Ludei [The lives of remarkable people], Moscow, 2010, pp. 231, 244, 245, 268.

Collection of the artist, American Art Galleries, New York, 17 November 1891, lot 105.
Acquired at the above sale by Peter Alexandroff.
R. Austin Robertson, co-founder of the American Art Association, New York.
Estate Sale of R. Austin Robertson, American Art Galleries, New York, 3 May 1892.
Acquired at the above sale by John. W. Brown, New York.
By descent to the wife of the above, Lilla Brown, New York, 1903.
Gift from the above to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 5 May 1906.

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Vasily Vereshchagin (1842-1904)
Crucifixion by the Romans
oil on canvas
118½ x 158 in. (301 x 401.3 cm.)
Painted in 1887