At the beginning of the year, the State Tretyakov Gallery showed viewers works that it acquired over the past fifteen years. A rare success, for example, was the purchase of a children’s portrait of the XVIII century “Girl with a bird”. Usually models for artists of that period were adults, such portraits were not created often.
For the first time this painting by an unknown artist was shown in 1912 in St. Petersburg, at the exhibition “Lomonosov and Elizabethan Time.” Even then it was assumed that the picture was written by Ivan Vishnyakov. It is known that in 1739-1761. he headed the “picturesque team” of the Chancery from the buildings that adorned the imperial palaces.
Portraits of his brush are rare. After the revolution, “The Girl with the Bird” disappeared. Fifteen years ago, she was seen by a Muscovite and bought. Decoratively executed portrait, perhaps, brought to us the features of a young daughter of Senator Pugovishnikov.
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