Tropinin V.A. Portrait of the Writer Varvara Lizogub

Tropinin V.A.

1776, Karpovo (Novgorod Province) - 1857, Moscow

Portrait of the Writer Varvara Lizogub

1847

oil on canvas. 82,5 x 68
Ж-5227
Пост. в 1910-х от антиквара Ф. В. Веркмейстера (Москва); ранее — у Н. М. Красовской (Санкт-Петербург)

Period Early 19th century
CategoryPortrait
Keywords The Epoch of Nicolas I (1825-1855) | female portrait | writers, poets | female costume | hairstyles | headdress | Jewellery
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The writer and representative of the intellectual elite is depicted by the artist as if she were participating in some kind of masquerade. She is dressed in an Eastern costume and in a headdress that resembles a Russian kokoshnik. Lizogub, Varvara Ippolitovna (née Petrovskaya; dates unknown) was the wife of the colonel Vasily Ivanovich Lizogub (1801–1870). Lizogub was the author of the Zuleika narrative poem, published in August 1845, and of poetry published in the magazine Moskvityanin (1841, No. 7).

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