Who painted “Received wisdom”?

“Received wisdom” was painted by Vasily Polenov in 1909. Where to see it: Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum.

What to look for

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.

Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1 June 1844 – 18 July 1927) was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists. His contemporaries would call him the "Knight of Beauty" as he embodied both European and Russian traditions of painting. Wikipedia

Test yourself: a round on Vasily Polenov

More by Vasily Polenov

“Moscow courtyard”, 1878
“An Overgrown Pond”, 1879
“Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery”, 1888
“Grandmother's Garden”, 1878
“Golden Autumn”, 1893
“Autumn in Abramtsevo”, 1890
“Early snow”, 1891
“Christ among the doctors”, 1896