“Portrait of Illarion Vasilievich Vasilchikov” - a painting by George Dow and his workshop from the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace.
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| George Dow and the workshop | ||
| Portrait of Illarion Vasilievich Vasilchikov . Around 1819-1821 | ||
| Canvas, oil. 70 × 62.5 cm | ||
| State Hermitage Museum , St. Petersburg | ||
| ( inv. GE-7880 ) | ||
The picture is a chest portrait of Major General Prince Illarion Vasilievich Vasilchikov from the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace [1] .
During the Patriotic War of 1812, Vasilchikov was a major general , chief of the Akhtyr hussar regiment and commanded a brigade in the 4th reserve cavalry corps, distinguished himself in the battle at Peace , in the battle of Borodino, commanded the 12th infantry division, was wounded and, for the difference, made in lieutenant generals . In overseas campaigns he was in almost all the most important battles, especially distinguished himself in the Battle of the Peoples near Leipzig , where he commanded the entire cavalry of the corps of F.V. Osten-Sacken and near Brienne-le-Chateau [2] .
Depicted in the general doloman of the Akhtyr hussar regiment of the sample of 1813, through which the ribbon of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky was thrown, a lanyard sling was put on top of the ribbon; a mentic is thrown over his shoulder. On the neck there are crosses of the Order of St. George of the 3rd class and the Order of St. Vladimir of the 2nd degree, below them is the cross of the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle of the 2nd degree and the Polish Order of St. Stanislav of the 3rd degree. The silver medal “In memory of the Patriotic War of 1812” on the St. Andrew’s ribbon , the cross of the Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa of the 3rd degree, the stars of the orders of St. Alexander Nevsky , St. Vladimir of the 2nd degree and St. George of the 2nd class [3] . Signature on the frame: L.V. Vasilchikov 1st, General Lieutenant .
On August 7, 1820, the General Staff Certification Committee Vasilchikov was included in the list of "generals whose service is not subject to consideration by the Committee." In fact, the decision to paint the portrait was made earlier than this date, since the advance of the Dow was paid on December 17, 1819. The rest of the fee, Dow received April 4, 1824. The finished portrait was taken to the Hermitage on September 7, 1825. The portrait should be dated between June 1819 (when the Dow arrived in Russia ) and October 1821 (the portrait does not contain the Order of St. Vladimir of the 1st degree, which Vasilchikov was awarded on October 12, 1821) [4] .
The collection of the Grand Gatchina Palace contains an author's repetition of this portrait with the signature of the artist and the date: Geo. Dawe RA pinxit 1821.
An engraving by G. Dow in the mezzo-tinto technique dated January 1, 1823 was removed from the gallery portrait, commissioned by St. Petersburg bookseller S. Florent, dated January 1, 1823, one of the surviving prints is in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum (paper, mezzo-tinto, 60.5 × 47, 5 cm, inventory number ERG-293) [5] .
Also in the Hermitage collection there is a drawing of Louis de Saint-Aubin, attributed as an image of I. V. Vasilchikov (paper, black chalk, 47 × 37 cm, inventory number ERR-6141) [6] , this drawing is compositionally extremely close to the portrait from the Military the gallery of his brother Dmitry Vasilyevich and discovers with him much more external resemblance than with Illarion Vasilyevich.
Portrait of I.V. Vasilchikov by Saint-Aubin
Portrait of D. V. Vasilchikov from the Military Gallery
Engraving G. Dow
A. Podmazo in his book on the Military Gallery reproduces the portrait of I. V. Vasilchikov by E. I. Botman from the collection of the State Hermitage (oil on canvas, 140 × 102 cm, inventory number ERZh-204) with the statement that he is a copy of the original F. Kruger ; Yu. Gudymenko, the curator of Russian painting in the Hermitage, considers it highly probable that this portrait may be a copy from Krueger, but notes that there is no direct evidence for this [7] . Visually, this portrait has nothing to do with the portrait from the Military Gallery and Podmazo in no way explains how it can be associated with the work of Dow [4] .
Notes
- ↑ State Hermitage Museum. - George Dow and the workshop. "Portrait of Illarion Vasilievich Vasilchikov."
- ↑ Dictionary , p. 331-332.
- ↑ Renne, 2009 , p. 271.
- ↑ 1 2 Podmazo, 2013 , p. 149.
- ↑ Dow, Henry Edward. “Portrait of General I.V. Vasilchikov”
- ↑ State Hermitage Museum. - Saint-Aubin, Louis de. "Portrait of Major General I.V. Vasilchikov."
- ↑ Gudymenko, 2017 , p. 66.
Literature
- Gudymenko Yu. Yu. The State Hermitage Museum. 19th Century Russian Painting: Collection Catalog. - SPb. : Publishing House of the State Hermitage, 2017 .-- 424 p. - ISBN 978-5-93572-737-6 .
- Podmazo A. A. Images of the heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812: Military Gallery of the Winter Palace. - M .: Russian Knights, 2013 .-- 864 p. - ISBN 978-5-903389-62-9 .
- Renne E.P. State Hermitage Museum. British painting of the 16th — 19th centuries: Collection Catalog. - SPb. : Publishing House of the State Hermitage Museum, 2009. - 416 p. - ISBN 978-5-93572-376-7 .
- Dictionary of Russian generals, participants in the hostilities against the army of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1812-1815. // Russian archive. The history of the Fatherland in the evidence and documents of the XVIII — XX centuries. : Collection. - M .: TRITE studio N. Mikhalkova , 1996. - T. VII . - S. 331-332 . - ISSN 0869-20011 . (Comm. A. A. Podmazo )