Two Russian Men
Medium
Pencil and watercolor.
Dimensions
14 3/4 x 10 9/16 in. (37.5 x 26.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Mary Jane Dastich, in memory of her husband, General Frank Dastich, 1975
Accession Number
1975.280.11
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Two Russian Men** (1904) by Klavdy Vasilyevich Lebedev is a delicate pencil and watercolor drawing that captures the essence of early 20th-century Russian life. Measuring 14 3/4 x 10 9/16 inches, this intimate work from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department depicts two men, likely everyday figures from Russian society, rendered with Lebedev's signature attention to character and expression. Created just before the upheavals of the 1905 Revolution, it reflects a period of social tension in Imperial Russia, where artists often turned to the human face to convey resili...