Nadenka Zhdanovich Fedotov knew still very small, he made a pair of watercolor portraits of her and Olga’s sister, drawing both in the same red dresses, with bare hands.
Even then, in a teenage girl with a serious gaze, he guessed the character that was fully revealed in the young girl-institute, which the artist painted sitting behind the clavinet: purity without hypocrisy, femininity without affectation, dignity without arrogance, vivacity without coquetry, the mind without pedantry, modesty without derogation.
Related Paintings
Portrait of NP Zhdanovich behind the clavinet by Pavel Fedotov 
Portrait of Anne Petrovna Zhdanovich by Pavel Fedotov 
Portrait of Alexandra Petrovna Zhdanovich by Pavel Fedotov 
Portrait of Elizabeth Petrovna Zhdanovich by Pavel Fedotov 
Portrait de N. P. Zhdanovich dans son enfance – Pavel Fedotov 
Portrait de N. P. Zhdanovich au Clavisin – Pavel Fedotov 
Portrait of Olga Petrovna Zhdanovich, nee Chernysheva by Pavel Fedotov 
Portrait d’Alexandra Petrovna Zhdanovich – Pavel Fedotov