Nikitin I.N. Portrait of a Child

Nikitin I.N.

1680s, Moscow (?) - After 1741

Portrait of a Child

Unfinished. Before 8 August 1732

oil on canvas. 41x35 (овал)
Ж-3969
Received in 1925 from the State Hermitage

Period 18th century
CategoryPortrait
Keywords The Epoch of Anna Ioannovna (1730-1740) | 1725 — 1730 | child portrait | children
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Scholars believe the child depicted is the son of Tsarevna Praskovia Ioannovna whom she had from her morganatic marriage with Ivan Dmitriev-Mamonov; the child died when he was still an infant. Today there is no doubt that the work was created by Ivan Nikitin.