Peasant yard
Taras Shevchenko. Peasant yard. Watercolour (16,1 × 24,6 cm). [April – October 1845]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. number g – 855.
Right at the bottom – the ink Shevchenko's inscription 1. Left at the top of the ink marked: 5.
Dated by the time of staying Shevchenko in Poltava and Kiev regions.
In the literature found under the names "House with barn" [A. P. Novitsky. Taras Shevchenko as a painter. – Lviv – Moscow, 1914, p. 55, № 207] and "Yard" [A. P. Novitsky. Shevchenko. – K., 1930, Table. XVII], in both sources incorrectly defined technique.
Storage areas: collection of D.L. Mordovets, V. Tarnowski's Museum of Ukrainian antiquity in Chernigov, Chernihiv Regional Historical Museum, Gallery of pictures Shevchenko, Kharkiv.
In 1939 exposed in Republican Shevchenko's anniversary exhibition in Kiev (catalog, № 161).
K. V. Chumak
After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1961, Vol. 7, part 1, № 114 (image), p. 45 (note).