This portrait of the artist wrote shortly after the wedding, he is full of tender feelings for his wife. At first he wanted to write it standing, full-length on the steps of the porch, but then he sat down on his terrace.
Everything is very simple – the usual terrace of an old, slightly silver-colored tree, the green of the garden close to it, a table covered with a white tablecloth, a rough bench. And the woman, still almost a girl, with a restrained and at the same time very trusting look, directed at us… and in fact at him, who had come to this quiet corner and now would lead her somewhere behind herself.
The dog is standing and looking at the owner – calmly and at the same time, as if expecting that now she will get up and they will go somewhere.
The kind, poetic world is behind the heroine of the picture, such an expensive artist himself, who joyfully recognizes him in other people close to him.
On the terrace by Boris Kustodiev 
Portrait of R. I. Notgaft by Boris Kustodiev 
Portrait of his wife by Giovanni Fattori 
Group portrait of the artists of the World of Art by Boris Kustodiev 
Retrato de la esposa de Yulia Kustodiev – Boris Kustodiev 
Portrait of I. B. Kustodiyeva by Boris Kustodiev 
Portrait of the composer D. V. Morozov by Boris Kustodiev 
Portrait of A. Sisley with his wife by Pierre-Auguste Renoir