Portrait of Prince Andrei the Elder Repnin

Unknown painter

Portrait of Prince Andrei the Elder Repnin

Школа Оружейной палаты. After 27 January 1699

oil on canvas. 194 х 109
Ж-3945
Received in 1923 from the Academy of Arts

Period Late 17th century – the 18th century
CategoryPortrait
Keywords The Epoch of Alexis Mikhailovich | The Epoch of Peter the Great (1682-1725) | портреты придворных лиц | Parsuna | парадный портрет | мужской портрет | Aristocrats | головные уборы | male costume | Weapon
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From the second half of the 19^th century to early 21^st century all scholars believed the person depicted here to be Afanasy Borisovich Repnin. However, this traditional view was recently reconsidered with the personification and the dating revised. It is possible that this is a postmortem picture, painted at the same time as the portrait of Andrei the Younger, after January 27, 1699 – the day when Andrei the Younger died. This new version was accepted by the Attribution Council of the Russian Museum in 2014.

Andrei the Elder Repnin (? – May 26, 1666)

Eldest son of Ivan Repnin (1615– 1697) who was a boyar close to the tsar and a house steward of Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich, and Yevdokia Nikiforovna Pleshcheyeva (? – April 8, 1695).

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