Show all images on one page	#009745 Title: The first Frost Artist: Kirsanov Sergey Size: 18x12.5x4.5 Size (inches): 7x5x1.75 Price : $499 SOLD!

This beautiful and detailed view of the Russian village in the beginning of Winter was painted by a well-known Fedoskino master, Sergey Kirsanov.
Being enchanted with the beauty of Russian nature, he has already created a series of dramatic winter landscapes, each of them is perceptively and realistically painted showing a peculiar charm of Russian countryside!
A small village is painted in this composition. We see a couple of houses with smoking chimneys and a small church surrounded by woods. Most likely, the box depicts the very beginning of winter, the first snow and possibly the first frost, since it looks like the river is covered with thin transparent ice, but the villagers have not yet had time to pull the boat out of the water and put it away for the winter.
The scene is painted in grey and light blue oils suitable for reproduction of a depicted time of the year. A piece of mother-of-pear is set into the river to add glow and reflection on thin transparent ice.
The scene is framed with a gold line. Sides of the box are imitating black-and-blue stone with addition of thin gold lines, and decorated with two parallel gold lines.
The box is constructed out of paper-mache. It is hinged from the top of the scene, and rests on a wavy platform with six legs.
The box's interior is traditionally red, the exterior is black.
The work is signed by Sergey Kirsanov with his name and the village of Fedoskino.