Years of life: (1850 - 1924)
Author: Yuliy Yulievich Klever
Size: 177 x 153 cm
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Time of creation: 1890
Location: The State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg
Melancholic in mood, the painting "The Forgotten Cemetery" is one of the characteristic works of a prominent representative of the late Romantic academic landscape painting Clover, in whose work the search for picturesqueness in nature is combined with the desire to poetize it outwardly.
In the "Forgotten Cemetery" with the ash-pink sunset typical of many of the artist's landscapes and the gnarled trunks of bare trees, with snow-covered graves and the ancient fence darkly looming against the darkening evening sky, there is a desire to romanticize the image, a combination of naturalism and poetic fiction.
Throughout his long career, Clover varied the elegiac motif of the old cemetery that attracted him in winter. He first turned to this motif in 1871 in the painting "Abandoned Cemetery in Winter", acquired by Count P. S. Stroganov.
