Kramskoy I. N. Portrait of the Sculptor Mark Matveevich Antokolsky

Kramskoy I. N.

1837, Ostrogozhsk (Voronezh Province) - 1887 St. Petersburg

Portrait of the Sculptor Mark Matveevich Antokolsky

1876

Canvas, oil. 75 х 63,5
Ж-2990
Пост. в 1913 от Е.Ю. Антокольской

Location in museum The Mikhailovsky Palace Open the panorama of the hall in the virtual tour
Room 23. Kramskoi
Period Late 19th century
CategoryPortrait
Keywords The Epoch of Alexander II (1855-1881) | The Peredvizhniki, Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions | male portrait | chamber portrait | Artists | male costume
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Kramskoi created a vast gallery of portraits of artists, scientists and writers. Among them, there is the portrait of the famous Russian sculptor Mark Antokolsky (1842–1902). Antokolsky was a professor and active member at the Academy of Arts as well as an honorary member of the Academies of Paris, Urbino and Berlin. Among his most notorious works, there are: “Ivan the Terrible”, “Spinoza”, “Mephistopheles”. He also produced the portraits of Sergei Botkin and Ivan Turgenev. He made the statue of Peter the Great for the Peterhof Palace and copied it for Taganrog, St Petersburg and Arkhangelsk.

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