Girl with Peaches

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Dimensions: 91 x 85 сm.
Location: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

The artist depicted 12-year-old Vera Mamontova, a daughter of Russian entrepreneur and patron of the arts Savva Mamontov. The portrait was painted at Abramtsevo, an estate of Mamontov. Serov created it in two months.

“All I wanted was freshness, that special freshness that you can always feel in real life and do not see in paintings. I painted it for over a month and tortured her, poor child, to death, because I wanted to preserve the freshness in the finished painting, as you can see in old works by great masters,” said the painter.