# The Volga Bargemen

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## Artwork

- Artist: [REPIN, Ilya Yefimovich](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/repin-ilya-yefimovich-rea36873aace7fd>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on cannvas

## Commentary

Graduating from the St. Petersburg Academy at the age of 29, Repin helped assure the international repute of Russian art with The Volga Bargemen, which had taken him three years to complete. It was immediately exhibited at the 1873 Vienna World Fair.

## Related artworks

- [In the Sun](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/repin-ilya-yefimovich-rea36873aace7fd/in-the-sun-r5bd44eacb64cfc>)
- [Portrait of Sofia Mikhailovna Dragomirova](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/repin-ilya-yefimovich-rea36873aace7fd/portrait-of-sofia-mikhailovna-dragomirova-rcafb2cfd93ca02>)
- [Portrait of the Artist&#39;s Daughter Vera](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/repin-ilya-yefimovich-rea36873aace7fd/portrait-of-the-artists-daughter-vera-rc3b48f0e6db066>)
- [Procession in the Province of Kursk \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/repin-ilya-yefimovich-rea36873aace7fd/procession-in-the-province-of-kursk-detail-rf76ff30f2712bb>)
- [Procession in the Province of Kursk](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/repin-ilya-yefimovich-rea36873aace7fd/procession-in-the-province-of-kursk-r5de997fe5df669>)
- [They did not expect him](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/repin-ilya-yefimovich-rea36873aace7fd/they-did-not-expect-him-r7c58cf8f1d12f6>)
- [Tolstoy Resting in the Woods](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/repin-ilya-yefimovich-rea36873aace7fd/tolstoy-resting-in-the-woods-rdf8dea4f1af99b>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)