oil on canvas
127 x 90.8 cm (50 x 35 3/4 in).
signed and dated lower right

PROVENANCE
Collection of Leo Maskovskii, Munich
Christie's, London, anonymous sale, October 5, 1989, lot 259
Private collection
Christie's, London, Russian Art, October 9, 2009, lot 27
Private collection, England
Sotheby's, London, Important Russian Art, May 28, 2012, lot 6
Acquired at the above by the present owner

EXHIBITED
St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Autumn 1876

LITERATURE
Pchela (St. Petersburg, 1877), no. 5, p. 77 (illustrated as an engraving titled Gertsegovinka v zasade s kartiny V.D. Polenova)
Igor Grabar, Repin. Khudozhestvennoe Nasledstvo, (Moscow: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 1948), vol. 1, p. 390
Ekaterina Sakharova and Aleksey Leonov, Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov. Pis'ma, dnevniki, vospominania, (Moscow-Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1950), pp. 140, 475, listed as Gertsegovinka
Wenceslaus Fiala, Polenov (Bratislava, 1956), p. 39
Ekaterina Sakharova and Aleksey Leonov, Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov, Elena Dmitrieva Polenova, Khronika sem'i khudozhnikov (Moscow-Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1964), pp. 210, 234, 732, listed as Gertsegovinka
Mark Kopshitser, Polenov (Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 2010), p.152