At Nature Study 'Plein Air'
1893 · Private Collection-Russian
At Nature Study 'Plein Air' is a 1893 painting by the Russian artist Victor Stember.
A sketch of this painting appears in the photograph #23. Stember noted in his diary that he enjoyed painting landscapes very much and felt that he would have been very good at it had he studied it instead of portraiture.
A reference in his diary refers to spending time with the painter Klever and his son as in this excerpt:
Wednesday, November 27, 1918
'We had a visitor for three days, the painter Klever, the son. We went out into the park together, to paint in the freezing weather. I painted two landscapes, one with the figure of Nikolai Ivanovich in his famous yellow leather jacket. An Autumn landscape with a sheet of ice covering the pond.'
Stember's signature can be seen in the lower left corner.
Archival Records of This Work
This Work Appears In
- Studio photograph 23 — 1914: Petrograd: The war with Germany was the reason to change the German sounding name 'S
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