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Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich

Main name
Этюд студента
Also known as
Этюд студента
1896
oil on canvas laid on cardboard
27.9 × 19.1 cm
1.0003
Signatures, notes:

Подпись и дата слева внизу: Н.Рерих / 96.

Location of the works
Nicholas Roerich Museum. New York

Roerich Museum, New York (1923); Louis & Nettie Horch col., New York (1935); Private col., USA (1950s); John O. Kurtz col., USA; Nicholas Roerich Museum (2007)

A sketch from nature, created during the artist's study at the Academy of Fine Arts, on the course of A.I. Kuindzhi. Currently, it is one of the few surviving oil sketches of this period. "Generally, my sketches are small in size and interesting only for myself and for the closest people who know me*".

*From a letter of N. Roerich to L. Antokolsky: Roerich N.K. Letters to L.M. Antokolsky. Letters to N. K. Roerich. Saint Petersburg: Museum-estate of N. K. Roerich in Izvara, State Tretyakov Gallery, Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1993.