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Portrait of V. S. Naryshkin

Creation period
1770’s-1780’s
Dimensions
59x47 cm
Technique
canvas, oil
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Fyodor Rokotov
Portrait of V. S. Naryshkin
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Major General Vasily Naryshkin was portrayed by Fyodor Rokotov, a Moscow painter. The portrait dates back to the 1770s and was made at the same time as the portrait of Vassily Naryshkin’s wife, Countess Anna Vorontsova. Both were kept at the vast family gallery of the Vorontsovs-Boldyrevs. In the summer of 1919, the works of art from the village of Vorontsovka, the Vorontsovs’ family estate, were nationalized. A lot of portraits by Rokotov were then brought to Moscow, but some moved to the Tambov Art Museum.

Vasily Naryshkin was born in December 1737. He became an officer of the Izmailovo Life Guards Regiment and took part in the palace coup of 1762, which installed Catherine II on the throne. When he retired in the rank of a major general, he settled with his wife Anna in his family estate in the Kaluga Governorate. They had four children — Ivan, Praskovya, Maria, and Dmitry, the future Crimean governor. Vasily Naryshkin died in 1800 and was buried in Moscow.
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Compositionally and stylistically, the informal portrait of young Naryshkin follows one of Rokotov’s most famous works, the 1772 portrait of Alexandra Struiskaya.
Portrait of Struiskaya. By Fyodor Rokotov, 1772
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In the picture, there is no interior, the background is darkened, with predominantly pearl grey colours. The compositional centre of the portrait is the thoroughly painted features of Naryshkin’s face. The sitter is wearing a self-coloured olive-green velvet waistcoat and a semi-transparent jabot, a male shirt detail descending from the neck to the breastbone. Jabots were a popular accessory of European costume until the middle 19th century. To focus the viewer’s attention on Naryshkin’s face, the painter neglected decorations and insignia. 

During his Moscow period, between the mid-1760’s through the 1780s, Fyodor Rokotov did not pay attention to subject details in his pictures: he didn’t depict drapery or jewels, interiors or textures even in ceremonial portraits. The most prominent exception is the coronation portrait of Catherine II, drawn in profile in 1763. The Empress actually ordered artists to copy her face from Rokotov’s original.

Little is known about the painter himself because he died without issue. Rokotov was born supposedly in 1735, in the Vorontsovo estate owned by Prince Repnin. Experts do not know for sure whether he was a serf. Rokotov’s first painting is dated 1757. In 1760, he was admitted to the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Five years later, Rokotov got the degree of Academician for a copy of Venus and Amour by Luca Giordano. Rokotov is the author of numerous half-length ceremonial portraits of Moscow nobles and a whole family gallery for the Vorontsovs, part of which is the portrait of Vasily Naryshkin, the husband of Anna Vorontsova.Little is known about the painter himself because he died without issue. Rokotov was born supposedly in 1735, in the Vorontsovo estate owned by Prince Repnin. Experts do not know for sure whether he was a serf. Rokotov’s first painting is dated 1757. In 1760, he was admitted to the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Five years later, Rokotov got the degree of Academician for a copy of Venus and Amour by Luca Giordano. Rokotov is the author of numerous half-length ceremonial portraits of Moscow nobles and a whole family gallery for the Vorontsovs, part of which is the portrait of Vasily Naryshkin, the husband of Anna Vorontsova.
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Portrait of V. S. Naryshkin

Creation period
1770’s-1780’s
Dimensions
59x47 cm
Technique
canvas, oil
3
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