Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ilia Efimovich Repin (1844-1930) - Volga Boatmen (1870-1873).jpg

Barge Haulers on the Volga by Ilya Repin
Voting period ends on 24 Jan 2015  at 09:43:33 (UTC)
 * Reason:HQ and EV
 * Articles in which this image appears:
 * History of painting
 * Ilya Repin
 * Peredvizhniki
 * List of Russian artists
 * The Song of the Volga Boatmen
 * Burlak
 * Steamboats on the Volga River
 * Barge Haulers on the Volga
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:Ilya Repin


 * Support as nominator – Alborzagros (talk) 09:43, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Support. Iconic. A Finnish cartoon based on this painting created an international hubbub in 1958: ; Nikita Khrushchev, on the barge pulled by Eastern bloc countries, is shouting "Imperialists!" to the US and UK... --Janke | Talk 10:30, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - There's a multitude of colors in the file history. How do we know which version's colors are accurate? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:39, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * reply about colors I don't know. could the resource help us? Alborzagros (talk) 14:52, 14 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Support — 'Russia Under the Old Regime' (title of a widely known history by Richard Pipes). Can we assume that the Russian State Museum would get the colors right? Sca (talk) 15:37, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Doubtful. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:34, 15 January 2015 (UTC)


 *  Comment - Now that you point it out, it does look a bit warm(ish) - but, if you take an average of all these:, I don't think it is too far off... ;-) There's another, slightly larger version on Commons (obviously from the same transparency photo, but most of the dust and hairs is unretouched), which has somewhat better looking color: However, if the little strip at the bottom is supposed to be a grayscale, then that version has been color corrected far too much toward the blue! --Janke | Talk 21:21, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree that it does look like something meant to help with colors. That means this is too warm and the other is a touch too cool... (I wouldn't say far too much...) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:22, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Isn't there anyone who can go to the museum and check original? This is a great painting. Hafspajen (talk) 14:42, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
 * This painting appears on quite a few non-English WPs. I looked at several of them and, for what it's worth, the colors appear the same, including on Russian Wiki. Sca (talk) 15:15, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I looked at the next-to last version, before the "border remove", and there, the grayscale strip really looked like a true greyscale. Thus, I fully support the colors of the current version. --Janke | Talk 17:20, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
 * There is a google file on it. https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/barge-haulers-on-the-volga/WAG9_bL0sypwYQ?hl=en Hafspajen (talk) 00:11, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The Google file is from the same color film transparency as the version on Commons, the same dust specks, and the same greyscale strip on the bottom... --Janke | Talk 06:53, 16 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Well then. Support, use to say, it is a highly reliable source. Trallala Ey, ukhnem! Song Of The Volga BoatmanHafspajen (talk) 15:49, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Rreagan007 (talk) 17:24, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 09:47, 24 January 2015 (UTC)