Oil on canvas (lined), signed and dated 1885 at lower right, presented in a later frame.

SS 20.25 x 24 in.; DOA 27 x 30.75 in.

From the Collection of the late Peter & Renate Bonnell

Vasily Vladimirovich Pukirev studied at the Moscow School of Painting. An accomplished genre painter and portraitist, he is best known for his painting, An Unequal Marriage (1862), currently on display at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Stable minor craquelure; stretcher marks; obscuring varnish and small re-touch to upper right corner visible under UV light.

$2,000 - 4,000