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The Radishev State Art Museum in Saratov

Саратовский государственный художественный
музей имени А.Н.Радищева

RUSSIAN and SOVIET ART

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WESTERN ART

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   The flow of contributions, though abundant and veried,
proved guite heterogeneous (with many ethnographic,minerologic
    and memorial items), thus simultaneously enriching and
   cluttering up the collection, which throughout the first decades
    looked like a Kunstkammer rather than a museum.
    It was not until after the Revolution that the enlargement
    of the collection beganon a new,   systematic basis
   . It was at that time that the artistic face of the museum
    was outlined. A number of articles, such as Alexander Pushkin's
     manuscripts, papers and personal belongings of Nikolai Gogol,

Франческо Пармиджанино (?)
Иоанн Креститель Francesco
Parmigianino(?). St. Jone the Baptist

Неизвестный немец кий скульптор.
Фигура святого.XVII
Unknown German Sculptor. St.John the Baptist

    Ivan Turgenev,as well as ethnographic and paleontologic
     collections, not related to the history of Fine Arts,
     were turned over to memorial and local-ethnography museums.
     In 1920's the Saratov museum received a lot of works by
    the Russian painters of the 18th-early 20th centuries
     and West European masters of the 17th-19th centuries.
    This enabled to create the first exhibition, featuring rigorous
     logic and balance. At present the Russian,   Soviet and
     Western art divisions of the Radishchev Art Museum in
       Saratov number about fifteen thousand holdings.

Шарль Франсуа Добиньи.Городок на Сене. 1876
Сharls- Francois Daubigny. A Town on the Seine. 1876

The items of old Russian art in the museum are sparse,
of special interest begin wooden sculptures, executed in the 18th
   century by carvers of the Volga region. The Russian art of the
18th to 19th centuries is extremely richly represented    n the collection.
      In the portrait exhibition of the 18th century the ceremonial
   portraits of Catherine the Great by Stefano Torelli and Johann Lampi
    hang next to the intermate canvases by Fedor Rokotov,
    Dmitri Levitsky and Vladimir Borovikovsky. Another ,
    though traditional trend    in this genre,   can be observed
    in the portraits of A.P.Radishchev,   I.Boshniak and N.Yakhontov
    by unknown artists.

    Луис де Колери. Прогулка по набережной. 1960-е гг.
             Lois de Coulery. A Riverside Walk. 1600s
Саратовский    государственный художественный
                       музей имени А.Н.Радищева

     The division of the early 19th-century Russian art
    boasts the portraits ofunusual poetic quality   by Vasili Tropinin,
     the portraits by Karl Briullov, striking in their pictorial splendor
     and precise character portrayal, and studies by Alexander
     Ivanov for his famous picture /The   Appearance of Christ before
    the People/. Added to the collection after the revolution, the works
      by Silvester Shchedrin, Aleksander Orlovsky and Orest Kiprensky,
    reveal the distinctive features of the Russian romanticism.

Rijckaert, Marten LANDSCAPE WITH GOATS
Пейзаж с козами

Неизвестный голландский художник. Лодки. XVII
   Unknown Dutch Artist. Boats. 17th cent.
Саратовский    государственный художественный
               музей имени А.Н.Радищева