Portrait of Count Andrey Bezborodko
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| Author: Robert
Lefevre |
| Portraiture, Painting, Oil on canvas, 225x165 cm |
| Origin: France, 1804 |
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Portrait of Count Andrey Bezborodko is the only early
19th-century official male portrait in the Hermitage. Bezborodko is
shown walking in the bosom of nature wearing high boots and riding
costume. His figure in this large canvas is almost natural height
and looks monumental against the low horizon of the landscape in
the background. The the two trees to the right, which seem to
gently intertwine, echo Bezborodko's legs and emphasize the
vertical format. The naturalistic treatment of the face and details
of clothing, the landscape which serves as a decorative background,
and the strictly balanced composition reveal the artist's
Neoclassical tendencies.
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| Style: Neo-Classicism |
| Source of entry: Stroganov Palace Museum,
Petrograd, 1923 |
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