Vasilii Tropinin
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2026. Sewn cl. Working in the first half of the nineteenth century, Tropinin continued the work of the early portraitists such as Borovikovskii and Levitskii, and created a body of secular portraits that combined an attention to the personality of his subject, a deromantized and keen observation of the physical and psychological traits of his subject. He was adept at capturing the true character and painted with equal ease eminent writers and homely peasants. He was among the first in Russian art to do portraits of children. His career was not smooth — as a serf he could not become a full-fledge student at the Academy, and he received his freedom only at the age of 47 when he was the best portraitist in Moscow. 184 p., 29 , approx. 140 color illus., Rus. Item #5020
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