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Museum-grade cotton-rag
Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
Archival pigment, 100+ years
Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
Colour-managed to the source
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Gallery canvas on solid wood
Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
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Golden Autumn

A birch-lined river, and the whole of a Russian October.

Work
Isaac Levitan, Golden Autumn
Artist / creator
Isaac Levitan (Russian, 1860–1900)
Origin & date
Russia, 1895
Held by
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Format

The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 18x24 cleanly.

Size

$24.00

The story

A slow blue river bends away between banks of birches at the height of their turning — leaves of pure cadmium and ochre against a clear cool sky, the far fields already going brown, a village small on the horizon. Levitan was the poet of the Russian “mood landscape,” a friend of Chekhov who could load an empty stretch of countryside with feeling, and here that feeling is a bright, aching happiness edged with the knowledge that it won’t last the week. No people, no story — just October itself, painted by the man who understood the Russian seasons better than anyone. Warmth held one moment before the cold.

About this reproduction

  • Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow’s open-access release.
  • Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
  • Color-managed to the source scan.
  • Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
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