Picture: The appearance of Christ to the people, And. Ivanov, fragment

"If you read the first chapter of the Gospel of John, you will be sure that Jesus must be completely alone. Jesus acquired disciples after this journey"

( A. Smith)

"The Appearance of Christ to the People" ("The Appearance of the Messiah") is a giant painting by the Russian artist Alexander Ivanov, painted in 1837—1857. It is kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
Art critic Vladimir Stasov noted that in the painting "The Appearance of Christ to the People" Alexander Ivanov "rose to a great height" and created a work the like of which "Russian art had never imagined before". Russian Russian artist Ilya Repin wrote that this is "the most ingenious and the most popular Russian painting", emphasizing that "its lively expressiveness is amazing", and "in its idea it is close to the heart of every Russian"..
A copy of the fragment of the painting is made with pastel pencils according to the sketch with colored ink on cotton textured paper .