2-708-731 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Magician Arrives at the Village Wedding', 1874, (1965). Scene in a Russian peasant home, the bride and groom standing under the icons, with embroidered cloths on the walls. The magician, with snow on his hat, is welcomed at right. Preparatory sketch for a painting titled 'Arrival of the Sorcerer at a Peasant Wedding', in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. From "Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]