7 surprising facts about the "Girl with Peaches" - the most famous picture Serov

This picture is far from even know the people of art. This is the famous "Girl with Peaches" Valentin Serov. Those who are interested in the work of this artist, know more and that he posed 11-year-old Vera Mamontov - the daughter of the well-known philanthropist and a wealthy promyshlennika.No few people know what happened with the heroine when she grew up, and what a tragic fate awaited her family . < Website


1. His most famous work of Valentin Serov created at a young age - he at that time was only 22 years old
Serov later wrote about that period:

«All I wanted, - a freshness that special freshness that you always feel in nature and do not see in the pictures. I wrote more than a month and tortured her, poor thing to death. »

< 2. Manor in Abramtsevo was a real home work: there stayed Turgenev, Antokolsky, Surikov, Korovin


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4.. Picture Serov gave Mammoth Elizabeth, the mother of Faith,


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