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

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Support as nominator – Alborzagros (talk) 09:43, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Iconic. A Finnish cartoon based on this painting created an international hubbub in 1958: [1]; 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)[reply]
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]

reply about colors I don't know. could the resource help us? Alborzagros (talk) 14:52, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Comment - Now that you point it out, it does look a bit warm(ish) - but, if you take an average of all these: [2], 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: [3] 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Promoted File:Ilia Efimovich Repin (1844-1930) - Volga Boatmen (1870-1873).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:47, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]