In front of us, there is a bust image of an unknown middle aged woman painted in an oval.
The figure and head are turned three-quarter towards the left. The dark hair is smoothly combed and parted in the middle to sideways, slightly covering the temples. The face is oval with the nose straight and narrow. The gaze of brown eyes is turned towards the viewer. The lady is wearing one of the most fashionable hats of that period — a bonnet that is tied with a blue ribbon in a bow below the chin and trimmed with white little feathers and symmetrically decorated with brown and violet flowers on the left and right sides.
Pavel Pleshanov is a master of academic historical painting and a prolific portrait painter who made a lot of secular portraits. Descending from the merchant background, he created a gallery of images of the Russian merchants. The canvas entitled Portrait of a Lady Wearing a Bonnet with Blue Ribbons was painted with his extremely scrupulous attention to details. Thoroughly and accurately, Pleshanov painted feathers, satin ribbons and a fur collar embellishing the bonnet. The artist also conveyed the sitter’s character, giving her a scornful, slightly haughty and annoyed facial expression.
Pavel Fyodorovich Pleshanov, a master of history painting and portraiture, was born in St. Petersburg. Being the son of a rich Rostov merchant who was making millions in turnovers in St. Petersburg, he grew in luxury. He decided that he was well-provided for the rest of his life and, having finished the course at the Commercial Vocational School in St. Petersburg, nevertheless, decided to devote himself entirely to art and thus, enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1848 to study painting, while in parallel taking private lessons from Professor Anatoly Anatolievich Bruny.
During his study, he was repeatedly awarded some silver and golden medals of the Academy of Fine Arts. After the death of his father, his elder brother had squandered all his fortune and Pavel Pleshanov had to save the financial situation of the family, teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts and concurrently painting the pictures of his own.
Pleshanov regularly figured in the Academy, all-Russian and international exhibitions. In 1877, for his merits in fine art the painter was elected a member of the Council of the Academy of Fine Arts, where he worked for the rest years of his life.
The figure and head are turned three-quarter towards the left. The dark hair is smoothly combed and parted in the middle to sideways, slightly covering the temples. The face is oval with the nose straight and narrow. The gaze of brown eyes is turned towards the viewer. The lady is wearing one of the most fashionable hats of that period — a bonnet that is tied with a blue ribbon in a bow below the chin and trimmed with white little feathers and symmetrically decorated with brown and violet flowers on the left and right sides.
Pavel Pleshanov is a master of academic historical painting and a prolific portrait painter who made a lot of secular portraits. Descending from the merchant background, he created a gallery of images of the Russian merchants. The canvas entitled Portrait of a Lady Wearing a Bonnet with Blue Ribbons was painted with his extremely scrupulous attention to details. Thoroughly and accurately, Pleshanov painted feathers, satin ribbons and a fur collar embellishing the bonnet. The artist also conveyed the sitter’s character, giving her a scornful, slightly haughty and annoyed facial expression.
Pavel Fyodorovich Pleshanov, a master of history painting and portraiture, was born in St. Petersburg. Being the son of a rich Rostov merchant who was making millions in turnovers in St. Petersburg, he grew in luxury. He decided that he was well-provided for the rest of his life and, having finished the course at the Commercial Vocational School in St. Petersburg, nevertheless, decided to devote himself entirely to art and thus, enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1848 to study painting, while in parallel taking private lessons from Professor Anatoly Anatolievich Bruny.
During his study, he was repeatedly awarded some silver and golden medals of the Academy of Fine Arts. After the death of his father, his elder brother had squandered all his fortune and Pavel Pleshanov had to save the financial situation of the family, teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts and concurrently painting the pictures of his own.
Pleshanov regularly figured in the Academy, all-Russian and international exhibitions. In 1877, for his merits in fine art the painter was elected a member of the Council of the Academy of Fine Arts, where he worked for the rest years of his life.
