Isaac Levitan, At the summer house in twilight, c.1895. Thank you, litverve.
Isaac Levitan: The Forest in Winter (1880). With thanks to Memory Green.
Isaac Levitan, Water Lilies, 1895. Thank you, fuckyeahclassicart & reflejos.
(Source: iloveclassicart, via veareflejos)
Isaac Levitan, The Twilight Moon, 1899. Oil on canvas, The Russian Museum collection, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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An Autumn Evening
In the brightness of autumn evenings
there is a touching, mysterious charm:
an ominous glitter, motley trees,
a light, languorous rustle of scarlet leaves,
a hazy, quiet blueness
across the sadly orphaned world
and, presaging gathering storms,
at times a gusty snap of wind.
Loss. Exhaustion. And on it all
there is that gentle smile of fading
which, in a thinking creature, we should call
the divine shame of suffering.
—Fyodor Tyutchev, Translated by F. Jude
Courtesy of Memory Green
Isaac Levitan (1860-1900) Moonlit Night - A Village, 1897 (from: sealmaiden: Olga’s Gallery)
