Who painted “A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding”?

“A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding” was painted by Vassily Maximov in 1875. Where to see it: Tretyakov Gallery.

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Peredvizhniki: academic painting of the time is polished, mythological and Italianate; the Wanderers paint Russian people and places, in earthy colour, with a story to read. French Realism shares the ideals but rarely the storytelling.

Vassily Maximovich Maximov (29 January 1844 – 1 December 1911) was a Russian painter, a prominent member of the Peredvizhniki group. Wikipedia

More by Vassily Maximov

“All in the past”, 1889
“Grandma's fairy tales”, 1867
“Sick Husband”, 1881
“Sorcerer Wedding”
“Boy-engineer”