Este lienzo que refleja un pausado ritmo vital, lleno de vaga melancolía y sentimiento de desamparo, es un paisaje concreto y al mismo tiempo un retrato del alma del pintor. Se representa una vista de las afueras de Moscú: un río caudaloso corre lento entre los bosquecillos marrones en las orillas cubiertas de nieve bajo un cielo gris y nuboso. El pintor encontró en la naturaleza los estados que concordaban con su propio estado de ánimo y con las congojas de las personas que vivieron el fin de siècle. Esto se logra en gran medida por la sutileza musical del tratamiento del color: una exquisita armonía de tonos grises y azulados, terrosos y blancos.

Levitan Isaac

Levitan, Isaac Ilich (1860, Kibarty (Lithuania) - 1900, Moscow)
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Studied under Alexei Savrasov and Vasily Polenov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1873-1885). Academician of painting (1898). Member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1891) and the Munich Sezession (1897), Contributed to exhibitions (from 1880). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1884-1900), periodical exhibitions of the Moscow Society of Lovers of the Arts (1887-1900), Fellowship of South Russian Artists (1892), Moscow Fellowship of Artists (1893), Munich Sezession (1896, 1898, 1899), Exhibition of Russian and Finnish Artists (1898), World of Art (1899, 1900), Pan-Russian Exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod (1896), International Exhibition in Munich (1898) and the World Exhibitions in Chicago (1893) and Paris (1900). Taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1898-1900).