CETINJE signed A. Korin, l.l., titled on a label on the reverse; oil on canvas; 16 x 22 inches Note: According to a letter of unknown authorship accompanying the painting, Alexei Michailovitch Korin was a painter of the late 19th century Tsarist Russia. He trained at the Tsarist Academy of Art in Moscow, exhibited in the Beaux Art Exposition in Paris, in 1900, the National Exposition in Rome in 1911. His works hung in the Gallery Zvjetkoff and Gallery Tretiakoff in Moscow, as well as the Tsarist Academy of Music, from the 1890's until the time of the Communist take-over of Russia. It is unknown whether these paintings still exist today. It is suspected that Korin actually traveled to Cetinge (in the capital of Montenegro in Yugoslavia) to paint Idyll in Cetinge. 'The two figures... show very definite Balkan slavic features... the Moslem dress (and especially the woman's lack of veil across her face, depicting her as a non-Moslem) and the Moslem architecture in the background. This painting is not a fancification on a Moslem theme, as we have often seen.'.