By the river / Bilia richky

In the foreground is a river running diagonally from the center from left to right. On the right bank are three children. A girl in a white shirt and red dress, standing knee-deep in water, puts a yellow duckling in a basket standing in green grass. On the water are two white and one gray duck with three ducklings. To the right, facing her, is a girl with a blue ribbon in her braid, in a motley red and yellow dress, with bare feet. Head and figure in profile. Between the girls, behind the basket, is a fair-haired boy in a white shirt, who has stretched out his right hand over the basket and pressed his left to his chest. On the opposite bank of the river, in front of densely growing trees, are white Ukrainian huts. On the blue sky and blue-green water, there are golden-pink reflections of the setting sun. In the right corner, a signature in black paint: “Trutovskyi 1878” (“Трутовского 1878”). Stretcher. The work is converted. There is dotted scree along the edges of the canvas. The image has coarsely meshed craquelure. Scratches at the bottom in the center.