An old man and a young man with a sheaf by Karl Bryullov

The back and knees of the bent old man in the drawing “The old man and the young man with a sheaf” are poorly worked, the mouth of the laughing Bacchus is bent, the structure of his ear is misunderstood, etc. The body is interpreted by Briullov as a complex system of muscles and tendons. In the drawings from the originals, the student did not need the creative reincarnation of what he saw.

But even in these works of the young artist individual features of his handwriting were felt. Errors of the professional order were bathed in that “Briullian” breadth of generalization and artistic daring, which subsequently being developed constituted a distinctive feature of his art.

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