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Ivan the Terrible and His Son | Ilya Repin | 1883

Ivan the Terrible and His Son | Ilya Repin | 1883

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"Ivan the Terrible and His Son" by Ilya Repin, completed in 1885, is a powerful and emotionally charged depiction of a tragic moment in Russian history. In this haunting painting, Repin portrays the harrowing scene of Tsar Ivan the Terrible unintentionally striking and killing his own son, Ivan Ivanovich, in a fit of rage. The figures are engulfed in a dark and somber atmosphere, with Ivan the Terrible holding his mortally wounded son in his arms, his face twisted in horror and despair. The painting captures the profound anguish and regret of the tsar, as well as the pain and shock in his son's expression. Through meticulous attention to detail and a dynamic composition, Repin conveys the devastating consequences of unchecked power and the human cost of tyranny, inviting viewers to reflect on the complexities of history and the tragic outcomes of unchecked rage and violence.

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  • Title Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 (Иван Грозный и сын его Иван 16 ноября 1581 года); often referred to simply as Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan or Ivan the Terrible Killing His Son
  • Artist Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Ukrainian-born Russian Realist; member of the Peredvizhniki [Itinerants]; Chuguev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine], 5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1844 - Kuokkala, Viipuri Province, Finland [now Russia], 29 September 1930)
  • Year of creation 1883-1885 (the date 1883 marks the start of work; the painting was completed in 1885. In his memoirs Repin recalled three principal sources of inspiration: the 1881 assassination of Tsar Alexander II by members of Narodnaya Volya, the music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov [particularly the symphonic suite Antar], and the bullfights he had witnessed during a trip to Spain in 1883. The composition depicts the moment immediately after Tsar Ivan IV "the Terrible" had struck his eldest son and heir Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich on the temple with the pointed metal-tipped end of his sceptre during an argument on 16 November 1581 — most likely producing an epidural hematoma — and now cradles the mortally wounded young man on a blood-red carpet in a darkened room of seventeenth-century Russian furnishings. The historical incident was best known to Repin through the account in Nikolay Karamzin's History of the Russian State. Repin used his friend the Peredvizhniki painter Grigoriy Myasoyedov as the model for Ivan and the writer Vsevolod Garshin — who would himself commit suicide in 1888 — for the Tsarevich; Ivan wears an austere black coat while the Tsarevich is in a pink satin dressing gown and teal-green boots. When publicly exhibited in 1885 the painting was banned by Emperor Alexander III in April of that year — the first painting to be censored in Russia — though the ban was lifted in July; Tretyakov, who had already purchased it, was at first unable to display it. The work is now also commonly known as Ivan the Terrible Killing His Son)
  • Technique/Medium Oil on canvas
  • Original dimensions 199.5 x 254 cm (78.5 x 100 inches)
  • Collection/Museum State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (purchased directly from the artist by Pavel Tretyakov in 1885 for his gallery; on permanent display, though the painting has twice been attacked by visitors — in 1913 by Abram Balashov, who stabbed it three times with a dagger crying "Blood! Why the blood? Down with blood!" — the canvas was restored by Repin himself — and again on 25 May 2018 by Igor Podporin, who damaged the central panel with a metal pole, requiring a four-year restoration completed in 2022)

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