Christ. Sketch for the painting "Christ and the Sinner". The gospel cycle of Vasily Polenov began with the creation of this picture. The idea acquired tangible features from Polenov, a pupil of the Academy, in 1868. The first studies and sketches for it were made in 1872 and in 1876 during a pensioner's business trip. Then the work "did not go."
And yet, I had to return to the plot in memory of the promise given to my beloved sister Vera Dmitrievna, Khrushchova's husband. They were twins and very friendly. In 1881, when she was dying, she took a promise from Polenov to seriously take up the painting of the painting “Christ and the Sinner”. After the death of his beloved sister, Polenov makes his first trip to the eastern countries in search of impressions and nature to penetrate the atmosphere of gospel places.
The album of the Moscow Rumyantsev Gallery was considered the most perfect of all similar publications on fine arts published in Russia.
Reproduction of paintings in the technique of heliogravure was made in Vienna, special paper of two grades was ordered from England and Holland,
the explanatory text for the edition was printed in Leipzig in a font specially designed for it.
