SERGEI ARSENIEVICH VINOGRADOV | At the Trough

Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner                         

At the Trough is a smaller version of the similarly titled composition at the Vitebsk Museum of Art, also dated 1895. Another comparable and identically sized painting titled Horses Drinking Water Near the Well was offered in these rooms on 31 May 2005. In the 1890s, as a young painter and a relative newcomer to the Peredvizhniki movement, Vinogradov found himself having to repeat commercially successful compositions in order to make ends meet.