This work is an excellent example of the "estate landscape" popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The artist develops the "mood-landscape" line begun by Isaac Levitan, subordinating the colour scheme and emotionally tense tones to the figurative content. All of Vinogradov’s landscapes are distinguished

Vinogradov Sergei

Vinogradov, Sergei Arsenievich (1869, Bolshie Soli, Kostroma Gubernia — 1938, Riga)
Painter, draughtsman. Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1880–1889) and at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1889). Academician of painting (from 1912), full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1916). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1884). Taught at the Stroganov School of Art and Industry (1898–1913).