Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н, 30 August 1860 – 4 August 1900) was a classical Russian landscape artist.
Church in Plyos, 1888
Bridge, Savvinskaya Sloboda, 1884
Autumn Day, Saltykovka, 1979
Autumn Landscape, 1880
Spring, High Water, 1897
Birch Grove, 1885-89
Lake, Russia, 1899-1900 (unfinished)
The Vladimirka, 1892
Evening Bells Ringing, 1892
March, 1895
Spring in Italy, 1890
Above Eternal Peace, 1894
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