Lot number 254 - Auction 151
JUNGE VOR SCHAUFENSTER

VASILIY TIMOFEEVICH TIMOFEEV 1835 Sergiyevskoye, near Simbirsk (Ulyanovsk) - after 1914 A BOY IN FRONT OF THE SHOP WINDOW Oil on canvas. 37 x 24,5 cm (F. 46 x 33,5 cm). Signed in Cyrillic lower right 'V. Timofeev'. W. T. Timofeew was born into a peasant family, and after his liberation from serfdom studied as an external student at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Rural life remained a consistent and authentic theme in his portraits and genre scenes. Part. craquelure.