Very interesting portrait of Kiprensky. He wrote on the story of the same name Karamzin. There is also a clear connection with the life of the painter himself.
The artist was a real psychologist who created magnificent portraits of women. He was able to convey the woman’s soul. All of its heroines are necessarily sad about something, they dream. They selflessly love, but are completely self-contained and never show their feelings.
Before us is a portrait that Kiprensky wrote in 1827. Many saw that the artist here showed himself to be a great master than Karamzin himself. The writer portrays the heroine sentimentally. The artist feels romantic. In the process of working on this painting, Kiprensky recalled his beloved mother. Her whole life was broken, and her love warped.
Kiprensky saw those reasons that became detrimental to the girl. His mother became an innocent victim of the laws of serfdom. We see a girl who is sad and sad. She is young and pretty. In the eyes of her plea. She looks at the man she is parting with. In her hands she holds a red flower symbolizing love.
Kiprensky simply could not describe the peasant woman in another way. Her feelings for no one matter. Her love simply has no future. Blame for everything was the inequality of social character, which reigns in the world. Kiprensky knew that when he created a well-known literary image, he rebuked the society in this injustice.
With his canvas, he causes tears in the souls of those who sympathize with this beautiful girl. The audience enthusiastically accepted only the picturesque power of this portrait. But to the idea of inequality in society, she remained indifferent. Contemporaries preferred simply not to notice this deep thought of the author. Kiprensky acutely felt this misunderstanding and realized that he was alone.
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