“The Ninth Wave” is one of the most famous paintings of the Russian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky , of Armenian origin, kept in the Russian Museum (inv. G-2202) [1] .
Ivan Aivazovsky | ||
The ninth shaft . 1850 | ||
Oil on canvas. 221 × 332 cm | ||
St. Petersburg , State Russian Museum | ||
( Inv. ) | ||
The painter depicts the sea after a very strong night storm and shipwrecked people . The sun's rays illuminate the huge waves. The largest of them - the ninth shaft - is ready to fall upon people trying to escape from the fragments of the mast.
Despite the fact that the ship was destroyed and only the mast remained, the people on the mast are alive and continue to fight the elements. The warm colors of the paintings make the sea less harsh and give the viewer the hope that people will be saved [2] .
The size of the picture - 221 × 332 cm [3] . Below, on the mast, the signature and date: Ayvazovskiy 1850; in the lower right corner red: 5; on the back in black: No. 2506 [4] .
The painting entered the Russian Museum in 1897 from the Hermitage [4] .
Notes
- ↑ State Russian Museum . Painting XVIII — early XX century. Catalog / ed. Pushkareva V.A. .. - L .: Aurora, Art, 1980. - P. 22, cat. No. 18.
- ↑ "Chapter Nine Shaft , from the book by L. Wagner and N. Grigorovich" A Tale of the Artist Aivazovsky "
- ↑ Ninth Shaft (HTML). www.museum-online.ru. The appeal date is June 24, 2012. Archived June 28, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 State Russian Museum. Painting. Catalog. St. Petersburg. Palace Editions. 1998 (Inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is October 9, 2016. Archived October 12, 2016.