Zelentsov, Kapiton Alekseevich

Kapiton Alekseevich Zelentsov (March 1790 - May 3 (15) May 1845 ) - Russian amateur artist , academician of painting, one of the most attractive, outstanding students of the founder of the Russian genre A. G. Venetsianov . During the Patriotic War of 1812 Zelentsov created a series of popular prints of caricatures of the French. He made, inter alia, drawings for the collected works of F. Bulgarin (engraved by S. Galaktionov in 1832 ), for “Dmitry the Pretender” of Pushkin ( 1832 ), for “Leonid” Zagoskin ( 1832 ) and for “Yuri Miloslavsky,” (engraved by Skotnikov in 1838 ). Zelentsov is credited with 40 etchings for the famous edition of The Magic Lantern (1817). The author of the book “Amusing Alphabet Composed and Drawn by K. A. Zelentsov” (St. Petersburg, 1835), one of the rarest Russian alphabets.

In 1833 , for the painting "Workshop of P.V. Basin," the Imperial Academy of Arts awarded Zelentsov the title of academician of promising painting. The painting is stored in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. As a representative of the Venetian school of painting, Kapiton Alekseevich Zelentsov in relation to the artistic style belongs to one of the first generations of Russian realists. Some of his paintings can even be attributed to hyperrealism, which was actively developing in the second half of the 19th century. The graphic works of Zelentsov represent, in addition to strictly realistic, a romantic style characteristic of the beginning of the century.

Of his other works, sketches written in oil paints stand out:

• "Boy with a Jug",
• "Old man"
• The Young Peasant Woman
• “Perspective view of the room” (by M.P. Fabricius , in St. Petersburg),
• pencil drawing "Selling milk and sbitniya" (in the Tretyakov Gallery , in Moscow ).