Cossacks in the steppe / Kozaky v stepu

A horizontal composition with a horizon line running down the middle of the canvas. Against the background of a steppe landscape, in the middle are two Cossacks on horseback, depicted from the back in a 3/4 turn to the left, the one on the left is on a bay horse. He is wearing a white shirt, ochre sleeveless shirt, red trousers with a green belt, a saber at the waist, a brown hat and red boots. On a grey horse, the second man is lighting a pipe, wearing an ochre shirt, a yellow-grey hat, blue trousers, a musket and a powder magazine behind his back. To the left of them is light green grass with blue and light ochre steppe flowers, two feather grass bushes. To the right is a steppe grass of yellow-green-brown colour. In the background, to the right, there is a small mound, to the left, to the horizon - a feather grass steppe. The sky is light blue, pink in the lower part with low light purple clouds with a lighted outline. In the lower left is the author's signature: "Serhii Vasylkivskyi". In the middle part there are three vertical folds of the canvas (the painting layer is not damaged). Warping of the canvas in the left and right lower corners due to improper tension on the stretcher.