2-701-988 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Reapers', c1830, (1939). Russian peasants with sickles and butterflies. Alexei Venetsianov (1780-1847) established his own school of painting and appointed court painter by Tsar Nicholas I. Painting in the collection of The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. From "The Russian State Museum". [State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad, 1939]