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Christ in the Wilderness
1872 · холст, масло (oil on canvas) · State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
For First Sunday of Lent
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The hands are the centre of it: locked together between his knees, knuckle on knuckle, so tight they have gone pale. He sits on a boulder in a field of broken grey stone with his bare feet on the rock and his cloak pulled round him, and he has been there all night; behind him the sky is turning pink before sunrise and the land is still in shadow. Ivan Kramskoy painted it in 1872, and the Tretyakov Gallery, whose founder bought it from the painter the same year, records that the horizon cuts the canvas into two equal halves, the cold earth below and the light above, with the clasped hands exactly at the centre of the picture. No devil is shown. The Academy offered him a professorship for it and he refused. Forty days, the Gospel says, and afterwards he was hungry. This is what the forty days looked like from inside.
Sources: State Tretyakov Gallery, 'Христос в пустыне', Inv. 651; read 2026-10-15. · Douay-Rheims Bible, Matthew 4 (drbo.org).
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.
Matthew 4:2 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)
The Record
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
The file this print is made from
| Artist | Ivan Kramskoy (Russian, 1837–1887) |
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| Date | 1872 |
| Museum | State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
| Accession | Инв. 651 |
| Medium | холст, масло (oil on canvas) |
| Dimensions | 184 x 214 cm |
| Sheet sizes | 8×10 in, 11×14 in, 18×24 in |
| Held by | State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow · Инв. 651 the museum’s record |
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| Source file | Wikimedia Commons · Christ in the Wilderness - Ivan Kramskoy - Google Cultural Institute.jpg |
| Licence | Public domain |
| Master | 4,000 × 3,507 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from Wikimedia Commons on 15 October 2026; held as our print master. |
The sheets
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,000 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.