Fechado en la última década de la vida de Levitán, el cuadro se caracteriza por la madurez creativa de este refinado lírico, destacado maestro del paisaje intimista. El paisaje observado se resuelve sobre la base de contrastes de color con un lenguaje pictórico esquemático. Se distingue por la pureza y la opulencia de los matices de color. El día nublado de otoño con su cielo plomizo está privado aquí de abatimiento, las copas de los árboles y la hierba amarillenta parecen irradiar luz. El cuadro tiene un carácter musical.

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).