'Portrait of Alexandr Sergeyevich Pushkin', 1827, (1965). Creator: Orest Kiprensky.

'Portrait of Alexandr Sergeyevich Pushkin', 1827, (1965).  Creator: Orest Kiprensky.

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'Portrait of Alexandr Sergeyevich Pushkin', 1827, (1965). Russian Romantic poet and author Pushkin (1799-1837) died from wounds that he suffered in a duel. The statuette of a muse in the background hints at the subject's poetic calling. Pushkin wears a plaid cloak in a reference to Lord Byron, the acknowledged poetic genius of Europe. Painting in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. From "Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]


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People Information

Creator
  1. Orest Kiprensky, attributed to: Russian: Artist, painter
Subject
  1. Aleksandr Pushkin: Russian: Author, poet, writer, playwright
People Related
  1. Vladimir Fiala: : Author, writer
  2. Artia: Czech: Publisher, publishers

Medium
  1. Oil

Picture Type
  1. Portrait

Category Hierarchy

People Famous People

Society & Culture Art & Literature

Artistic Representations Portraits


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4212x5216
File Size : 64,365kb


Aliases

  1. 0580049983
  1. 2-708-668
  1. 2708668

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