This painting is a reproduction of a portrait made by the Russian painter Karl Brullov in 1838: the original portrait is in the collection of the Government Museum Association ‘Khudozhestvennaya Kul’tura Russkogo Severa’. There are two known reproductions of this portrait: one is in Rybinsk State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum Preserve and another one is in Yaroslavl Art Museum.
This reproduction is dimensionally equal to the original, while the one in Yaroslavl is smaller than Brullov-made portrait. Both paintings arrived in museums from Borisogleb, a manor house of Musin-Pushkin bloodline. They probably ordered copies from less famous painters after the completion of the original, but there is a probability that duplicates were made by Brullov himself.
This portrait depicts Vladimir Musin-Pushkin, a captain of Izmaylovsky Regiment, a big landowner and a member of decembrist Northern Society. He went through a lot in his life by the time his portrait was painted: a failed revolt of his decembrist comrades, an imprisonment in the Peter and Paul Fortress for siding with revolutionaries, the death of his parents, and difficult circumstances of marrying Emily Karlovna Stjernvall, a famous beauty of his times.
As a rule, Brullov only painted portraits of people spiritually and mentally close to him. The portrait of Musin-Pushkin is not an exception: it depicts the deep and comprehensive nature, precisely reflecting a hero of his time. Musin-Pushkin is depicted waist-deep, his chest is illustrated frontally, and his head is turned to the right. His hands are crossed under his chest and support the bottom part of his coat. His face is expressive, lengthy, large-nosed, lips narrow, eyes bright blue under shallow eyebrows, high forehead, receding hairline. His occasional brown hair are slicked forth at the temples.
Musin-Pushkin is exquisitely and strictly dressed: dark brown cape with wide black collar, black frock coat, white shirt with tall black bowtie, his hands are covered by light yellow gloves. A special sense of romance to his image is provided by an expressive body turn, expressive sight, looking far ahead, along with the looming storm clouds on a background.
This reproduction is dimensionally equal to the original, while the one in Yaroslavl is smaller than Brullov-made portrait. Both paintings arrived in museums from Borisogleb, a manor house of Musin-Pushkin bloodline. They probably ordered copies from less famous painters after the completion of the original, but there is a probability that duplicates were made by Brullov himself.
This portrait depicts Vladimir Musin-Pushkin, a captain of Izmaylovsky Regiment, a big landowner and a member of decembrist Northern Society. He went through a lot in his life by the time his portrait was painted: a failed revolt of his decembrist comrades, an imprisonment in the Peter and Paul Fortress for siding with revolutionaries, the death of his parents, and difficult circumstances of marrying Emily Karlovna Stjernvall, a famous beauty of his times.
As a rule, Brullov only painted portraits of people spiritually and mentally close to him. The portrait of Musin-Pushkin is not an exception: it depicts the deep and comprehensive nature, precisely reflecting a hero of his time. Musin-Pushkin is depicted waist-deep, his chest is illustrated frontally, and his head is turned to the right. His hands are crossed under his chest and support the bottom part of his coat. His face is expressive, lengthy, large-nosed, lips narrow, eyes bright blue under shallow eyebrows, high forehead, receding hairline. His occasional brown hair are slicked forth at the temples.
Musin-Pushkin is exquisitely and strictly dressed: dark brown cape with wide black collar, black frock coat, white shirt with tall black bowtie, his hands are covered by light yellow gloves. A special sense of romance to his image is provided by an expressive body turn, expressive sight, looking far ahead, along with the looming storm clouds on a background.
