PAUL POWIS (19TH CENTURY) RUSSIAN TROIKA SCENE PAINTING, oil on canvas, a dynamic composition featuring a speeding sleigh with horseman and rider, the latter shooting a rifle at a pursuing pack of wolves in rural winter landscape, signed and dated "PAUL POWIS / 1886" lower right. Housed in a 19th-century frame with later painted surface. Circa 1886. 29 1/2" x 49 3/4" sight, 41" x 61 1/4" OA.
Very good overall condition with minor scattered craquelure and areas of discoloration, possible area of overpaint extreme upper left corner. Frame with wear and losses, later surface.
Provenance: Property from the collection of Dr. Jefferson Davis Futch III, Professor of History at Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA.

Very good overall condition with minor scattered craquelure and areas of discoloration, possible area of overpaint extreme upper left corner. Frame with wear and losses, later surface.