On the Attribution of One Portrait by Vasily Tropinin

Abstract

Painting by artist V. Tropinin, discussed in the article, is being kept in the Museum of V. Tropinin and Moscow artists of his time in Moscow and is called Portrait of Samson Ksenofontovich Sukhanov. The portrait was acquired by the famous collector F. E. Vishnevsky in 1967. The signature of V. Tropinin and the year of painting – 1823, were found on the canvas, but the name of the picture was missing or poorly recognized. Originally the work was referred to as The Old Bricklayer and The Bricklayer. In 1968, without reference to archival materials, on the basis of an essay by P. Svinin’s “Adventures of Sukhanov, a Russian natural sculptor” portrait was attributed as The Portrait of an Old Bricklayer (S. Sukhanov). Half a century has passed, but no documentary evidence confirming that Sukhanov is depicted in the portrait has been found, and an analysis of archival materials related to the life of V. Tropinin and S. Sukhanov, gives the reason to doubt this.

Keywords

V. Tropinin; S. Sukhanov; P. Svinin; “Otechestvennye zapiski” (“Annals of the Fatherland”); Academy of Arts; “Russian Museum”; The Old Bricklayer; The Bricklayer;

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