Family Portraits of Famous and Unknown Authors in the Museum of V. A. Tropinin

MOSCOW. The Museum of V. A. Tropinin, starting from March 28, invites you to visit the exhibition, which presents the most interesting genre of portraiture - family portrait. Most of the works presented at the exhibition “Family Portrait of the 18th-19th Centuries” belong to artists who are not well known to the general public. This situation is understandable, because in those years family portraits were often painted by serf artists.

Sometimes they were ordered to famous masters, but it happened that in the family collection portraits painted by lovers were carefully kept. Therefore, the exhibition included some works whose authorship has not been established. The main thing is that each such work, telling the story of a family kind, became a real relic, turning into a part of family values.

If you look closely at the portrait of the Zavolokins family included in the exposition, written by an unknown artist in the first half of the 19th century, you can see that the painter was able to find the main thing that unites this family - their unusual proximity to each other. At this time, similar paintings were available in almost every family.

In some paintings, not only images of ideal family relationships, sometimes artists turned to dramatic moments in family life. The exhibition presents the genre canvas "Fatal Letter", whose author is also unknown. Another canvas, which depicts the family’s gatherings for the ball, on the contrary, causes a smile.

Among the works present at the exhibition, you can get acquainted with the works of famous artists of those years who do not take part in exhibitions too often. Pair portraits with images of husband and wife are also of interest.

The exhibition can be visited until June 23rd.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru