Porcelain plaque with a copy of D. Levitsky’s painting “Portrait of Agafya Dmitrievna (Agasha) Levitskaya”.
Porcelain plaque with a copy of D. Levitsky’s painting “Portrait of Agafya Dmitrievna (Agasha) Levitskaya”.
Russia, Moscow Governorate, Bronnitsy Uyezd, Fenino village
Second half of the 19th century
Painting artist M.V. Krykov, Original artist D.G. Levitsky, A. Orlov’s Painting Workshop
Porcelain, wood (frame); overglaze polychrome painting
Plaque: 25.5 x 20.2 cm; in frame: 35.1 x 29.3 cm
Mark on reverse of plaque: blue, in circle, “ЖИВОПИСНОЕ ЗАВЕДЕНИЕ ОРЛОВА АЯ № 61”; handwritten inscription in black paint: “М:Крюковъ. Глаша съ картины Д.Левицкого”
Rectangular porcelain plaque featuring polychrome three-quarter length depiction of girl in Russian dress, wearing kokoshnik on her head, standing by table inside peasant hut against background of window. Her body is turned three-quarters to left, head is in full face. Plaque is enclosed in gilded wooden frame decorated at corners with relief palmettes and floral shoots extending from them.
Painting is executed after D.G. Levitsky’s 1785 artwork “Portrait of Agafya Dmitrievna (Agasha) Levitskaya” (State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
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