“Portrait of Ivan Yegorovich Shevich” - a painting by George Doe and his workshop from the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace.
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| George Doe and workshop | ||
| Portrait of Ivan Egorovich Shevich . Around 1822-1823 | ||
| Canvas, oil. 70 × 62.5 cm | ||
| State Hermitage , St. Petersburg | ||
| ( inv. GE-7865 ) | ||
The picture is a bust portrait of Lieutenant-General Ivan Egorovich Shevich from the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace [1] .
By the beginning of the Patriotic War of 1812, Major General Shevich commanded the 1st Brigade of the 1st Cuirassier Division, distinguished himself in the Red Battle . During the 1813 Foreign Campaign for distinction in the Kulma battle, he was promoted to lieutenant general and was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir , 2nd degree, died in the Battle of the Nations under Leipzig [2] .
He is depicted in a general's uniform, introduced for cavalry generals on April 6, 1814 - because of the death in 1813, he could not wear such a uniform and he was put on a general-uniform uniform of 1808 with two rows of buttons. On the left, a Star of the Order of St. Anne , 1st Class; on the neck are crosses of the orders of the Order of St. George of the 3rd class and the Order of St. Vladimir of the 2nd degree; a silver medal “In memory of the Patriotic War of 1812” on the St. Andrew’s ribbon on the right — it is possible that this medal is depicted erroneously, since the first documented awards to it in the army took place almost a month after Shevich's death [3] . Signed on the frame: I. E. Shevich 1st, General Lieutenant [4] . For some unknown reason, the breast star of the Order of St. Vladimir of the 2nd degree is not depicted; for this reason, the neck cross of this order can be mistaken for the 3rd degree [5] .
On August 7, 1820, the General Staff Committee for Certification Shevich was included in the list of “generals whose service did not belong until the Committee’s consideration” and on July 3, 1821, Emperor Alexander I ordered his portrait to be painted. Since Shevich died in the fall of 1813, his portrait was sought to remove a copy. On June 17, 1822, the Inspector Department of the War Ministry, Quartermaster of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment , which Shevich once commanded and was listed until his death, was asked to have a portrait of Shevich in the regiment, to which the answer was: “I really like It is known that the late Lieutenant General and former commander of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment Shevich has a miniature written very faithful by his son, who serves in the same regiment, Cornet Shevich, who is now in the regiment and follows on the march to Tsarskoye Selo . On August 9 of the same year, the commander of the regiment, Major-General Prince S. A. Khilkov, wrote to the Inspection Department: I humbly ask for the passage in him of the need to send him back to return to the cornet Shevich. " On December 4 of the same year, Prince Khilkov, in a letter to the Inspection Department, recalled the request to return the portrait of General Shevich to his son, to which he was told: “The portrait of the late General Shevich, as the painter Dove notifies, has not yet been written off; Returned to your Siyatselstvu . The Dow fee was paid on March 13 and July 31, 1823. On August 16, 1823, a letter was sent to Prince Khilkov: “A portrait of the late Lieutenant-General Shevich on his first address from the painter Dove, is being sent to Your Grace to return the regiment entrusted to you to Cornet Shevich . ” The finished portrait was accepted into the Hermitage on September 7, 1825 [6] . The location of the prototype portrait is unknown to modern researchers.
V. K. Makarov found this portrait completely devoid of similarities with the typical works of Dow [7] . The keeper of British painting in the Hermitage E. P. Renne supported his opinion [4] .
Notes
- ↑ State Hermitage. “Dow, George and the workshop.” "Portrait of Ivan Egorovich Shevich".
- ↑ Dictionary, 1996 , p. 610.
- ↑ Bartoshevich, 2001 , p. 20.
- ↑ 1 2 Renne, 2009 , p. 370.
- ↑ Podmaso, 2013 , p. 691, 819.
- ↑ Podmaso, 2013 , p. 691.
- ↑ Makarov, 1940 , p. 190.
Literature
- Bartoshevich V. V. Award medal of a participant in the Patriotic War of 1812 as a monument to the era // Bartoshevich V. V. In a struggle with Napoleon. Numismatic essays. - Kiev: Pectoral Dome, 2001.
- Makarov V.K. George Dow in Russia // The State Hermitage Museum. Proceedings of the Department of Western European Art. - L. , 1940. - T. 1 .
- Podmaso A. A. Images of the heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812: the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace. - M .: Russian Knights, 2013. - 864 p. - ISBN 978-5-903389-62-9 .
- Renne E. P. The State Hermitage. British painting of the XVI — XIX centuries: Catalog of the collection. - SPb. : State Hermitage Museum Publishing House, 2009. - 416 p. - ISBN 978-5-93572-376-7 .
- Dictionary of Russian generals, participants in hostilities against the army of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1812-1815. // Russian archive. History of the Fatherland in the certificates and documents of the XVIII — XX centuries. : Collection. - M .: studio " TRITE " N. Mikhalkov , 1996. - T. VII . - p . 610 . - ISSN 0869-20011 . (Comm. A. A. Podmaso )