2-702-063 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Boys Basking in the Sun', mid-19th century, (1939). Naked boys in a landscape. Alexander Ivanov (1806-1858) studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg under his father, Andrey Ivanovich Ivanov, and worked in Rome for some years. Painting in the collection of The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. From "The Russian State Museum". [State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad, 1939]