"Morning in the Pine Forest" after Shishkin summer scene with climbing bears on a fallen pine tree, 1886 Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832 Yelabuga to St Petersburg] painted his famous painting "Morning in the Pine Forest", which is now kept in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the present somewhat reduced copy by an unknown painter, oil on canvas, c. 1900, unsigned, craquelure, canvas wavy, backing of the canvas, retouched, somewhat in need of restoration, modern framing, rebate dimensions approx. 94.5 x 133.5 cm.

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