Who painted “Threshing Barn”?

“Threshing Barn” was painted by Alexey Venetsianov in 1822. Where to see it: Russian Museum.

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Romanticism: Neoclassicism is cool and linear; Romanticism is turbulent and colourful. Realism, which followed, replaced drama with ordinary life.

Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov (18 February 1780 – 16 December 1847) was a Russian painter, renowned for his paintings devoted to peasant life and ordinary people. Wikipedia

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More by Alexey Venetsianov

“In the Ploughed Field: Spring”, 1820s
“Peasant Girl with Cornflowers”, 1820s
“The foundation of St. Petersburg”, 1838
“Portrait of Natalia Pavlovna Stroganova”, 1810
“Sleeping Herd-Boy”, 1824
“Girl in a Shawl”
“Zakharka”, 1825
“Peasant Girl with a sickle in the Rye”