Footnotes

• PROVENANCE:
  Part of the series of paintings The Life of Christ completed by the artist in late 1890-1900s
  Acquired by Charles R. Crane at the Russian Art Exhibition, New York, April 1924
  Presented by the above to a North American Institution, 1 August 1924
  
  EXHIBITED:
  St. Petersburg, as part of the series The Life of Christ, 1908
  Moscow, as part of the series The Life of Christ, 1909
  Orel, Kharkov, Kiev, Ekaterinoslav and Kazan', as part of the 'Peredvizhniki' exhibition, 1909
  Prague, as part of the series The Life of Christ, 1910
  New York, Grand Central Palace, The Russian Art Exhibition, 1924, no.628
  Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, Bonhams Pre-sale Exhibition, 25 October-7 November, 2011
  
  LITERATURE:
  The album, Iz zhizni Khrista, 1908, illustrated
  The album, V. Polenov, Iz Zhizni Khrista, Prague, 1912, illustrated
  The Russian Art Exhibition, Grand Central Palace, New York, 1924, exhibition catalogue, section: Vasili Polenov, number 628, illustrated on the following page
  Helen Rubissow, The Art of Russia, Philosophical Library, New York, 1946, illustrated
  Alison Hilton, The exhibition of Experiments in St. Petersburg and the Independent Sketch, in Art Bulletin, volume LXX, 1988, page 677-698
  Art Bulletin, volume LXXI, number 4, page 695, illustrated
  He that is without sin and He is guilty of death, an article on the two paintings by Polenov, Tretyakov Gallery Magazine, December-January 2011