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