2-708-686 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Landowner's Wife in the Morning', 1823, (1965). Depiction of Russian feudal life: the nobility interacting with the peasantry. Here a woman, thought to have been modelled by the artist's wife Martha, distributes flax for spinning in winter. Painting, also known as 'Landowner's Wife Giving Flax to Peasant Women', in the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg. From "Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]