“Portrait of Peter Kornilovich Sukhtelen” - a painting by George Dow from the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace.
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| George doe | ||
| Portrait of Peter Kornilovich Sukhtelen . 1820 year | ||
| Canvas, oil. 70 × 62.5 cm | ||
| State Hermitage Museum , St. Petersburg | ||
| ( inv. GE-7811 ) | ||
The picture is a chest portrait of engineer-general Baron Pyotr Kornilovich Sukhtelen from the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace [1] .
By the beginning of the Patriotic War of 1812, engineer-general Suhtelen was an envoy to Sweden , was in Abo and on behalf of the Russian Empire signed the Erebro Peace with Great Britain , which marked the beginning of the Sixth Anti-Napoleonic Coalition; in September, he was granted the title of baron for his services. In the overseas campaigns of 1813 and 1814, he led the Russian mission in the Northern Army, participated in the battles of Dennevice and Leipzig , then commanded the troops in Holstein . In January 1814 he signed a peace treaty with Denmark [2] .
Depicted in the general's uniform introduced for engineering generals on May 7, 1817, a greatcoat was thrown over his shoulders. On the neck there is a cross of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem ; on the right side of the chest there is a cross of the Order of St. George of the 4th class, a bronze noble medal "In memory of the Patriotic War of 1812" on the Vladimir tape , stars of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky , the Swedish Order of Seraphim and the Order of St. Vladimir of the 1st degree, as well as embroidered star of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. In the lower left corner against the background is an unobtrusive signature of the artist and the date: painted Geo Dawe 1820 [3] . Signature on the frame: Baron P.K.Sukhtelen, Engineer General .
At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Suhtelen was again in Sweden as an emergency envoy; It is known that at the end of May 1820 he came to St. Petersburg , after which a portrait was painted. On September 1 of the same year, his finished portrait, as well as portraits of I. O. Witt , A. F. Langeron and F. V. von der Osten-Saken , was shown at the exhibition of the Imperial Academy of Arts in the Tauride Palace [4] . The finished portrait was taken to the Hermitage on September 7, 1825 [5] .
V. K. Makarov named the gallery portrait of Sukhtelen among the best works of Dow [6] .
Simultaneously with the work for the War Gallery, Dow performed two other very close versions of the portrait, both commissioned by P.K.Sukhtelen himself. One of them depicts Sukhtelen without an overcoat, this portrait was in the Sukhtelen family collection, after his death was bought by Emperor Nicholas I along with the entire collection of ancient books and manuscripts collected for a long time by P.K. Sukhtelen, and was transferred to the Imperial Public Library , where is stored in the Department of manuscripts of the NLR to the present [7] . In another portrait, Sukhtelen is also depicted in a greatcoat, but the smell of his greatcoat is changed and there is no star of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky on his chest. This portrait of Suhtelen was taken to Sweden and is now kept at the Royal Academy of Liberal Arts in Stockholm [5] . The next year, in 1821, in Stockholm, the Swedish artist Jacob Axel Gillberg removed a miniature copy of the bone from the portrait (8.1 × 7.6 cm, a private collection, was auctioned at the Christie's auction house in London on November 27–28, 2012 ) [8] .
In 1823, the London company Messrs Colnaghi commissioned the St. Petersburg bookseller S. Florent from a gallery portrait to make an engraving by T. Wright with the date May 1, 1823 [9] , one of the prints of which is also in the Hermitage collection (paper, dotted engraving, 41 , 6 × 33.8 cm, inventory number ERG-598) [10] . D. A. Rovinsky reports that P. K. Sukhtelen himself from this engraving in 1827 made a copy of “strong vodka” (acid etching on metal) [11] . In 1839, T. Wright released a new version of this engraving [12]
Variant of a portrait from the Russian National Library
Engraving by Thomas Wright, Hermitage
A miniature copy of the "Swedish" version of the portrait
Notes
- ↑ State Hermitage Museum. - George Dow. "Portrait of Peter Kornilovich Sukhtelen."
- ↑ Dictionary, 1996 , p. 565-566.
- ↑ Renne, 2009 , p. 354-355.
- ↑ Opening of the Academy of Arts and its extraordinary meeting // Domestic notes. - 1820. - Part 3. - S. 284.
- ↑ 1 2 Podmazo, 2013 , p. 611.
- ↑ Makarov, 1940 , p. 191.
- ↑ Russian National Library. - Logutova M. G. Pyotr Kornilevich Sukhtelen and his collection.
- ↑ Christies. Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes. London November 27-28, 2012. Lot 221.
- ↑ Rovinsky, t. 3, 1888 , stb. 2023, No. 1.
- ↑ State Hermitage Museum. - Wright, Thomas. "Portrait of the engineer-general, Count P.K. Sukhtelen."
- ↑ Rovinsky, t. 3, 1888 , stb. 2023, No. 2.
- ↑ Rovinsky, t. 3, 1888 , stb. 2023, No. 3.
Literature
- 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 .
- Rovinsky D.A. Detailed Dictionary of Russian Engraved Portraits. Edition with 700 phototype portraits. - SPb. : Printing House of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1888. - T. III: P — Ѳ.
- 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. 565-566 . - ISSN 0869-20011 . (Comm. A. A. Podmazo )