| Fresh Wind. Volga | |
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| Russian: Свежий ветер. Волга | |
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| Artist | Isaac Levitan |
| Year | 1891–1895 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 72 cm × 123 cm (28 in × 48 in) |
| Location | Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
Fresh Wind. Volga[a] (Russian: Свежий ветер. Волга, romanized: Svezhiy veter. Volga) is an oil painting by the Russian artist Isaac Levitan made between 1891 and 1895. The painting depicts the Volga river in central Russia. It has been housed in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery since 1910.
Levitan worked on the painting for four years, beginning in 1891 and finishing in 1895. A year later, it was displayed at the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions' 24th exhibition in Saint Petersburg and was purchased by Russian art collector Mikhail Morozov that same year. In accordance with Morozov's will, the painting was transferred to the Tretyakov Gallery in 1910.
Fresh Wind. Volga is part of a series of joyous works depicting nature that Levitan made between 1895 and 1897, which also includes the paintings March (1895), Golden Autumn (1895), Spring. High water (1897), and others. The artwork, according to art historian Aleksei Fedorov-Davydov, conveys a "festive image of life," and in it "everything is full of life". The artist Mikhail Nesterov said of the painting that "Perhaps no picture, except for Ilya Repin's Barge Haulers on the Volga, gives such a vivid, accurate description of the Volga."
- ^ Bartlett 2021, p. 40.
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