Portrait of Tsar Paul I
Stepan Semjonowitsch Schtschukin (Moskau 1754 - St. Petersburg 1828), follower
Lot-No. 289
Oil/canvas, 61,5 x 50 cm, rest., relined. - Prov.: Old noble collection, Normandy. - The painting shows the tsar in the uniform of the Preobrashenki regiment, sporting the order of St. Anna, the order of St. Andrew as well as the Prussian Black Eagle order. - Russian portrait and water colour painter. S. was educated by Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitzky at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. In 1782 he received a fellowship and was afforded a study stay abroad, including studies at the Paris academy. Following his return to Saint Petersburg, S. was appointed a teacher at the academy in 1788 and was promoted a full academician in 1797. - Mus.: Moscow (Tropinin Museum), Saint Petersburg (Russian Museum, Painting Gallery of the Russian Academy of Arts), Stuttgart (State Museum of Wuerttemberg) et al. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Benezit.
Stepan Semjonowitsch Schtschukin: Portrait of Tsar Paul I
Stepan Semjonowitsch Schtschukin (Moskau 1754 - St. Petersburg 1828), follower
Portrait of Tsar Paul I
Lot-No. 289
Oil/canvas, 61,5 x 50 cm, rest., relined. - Prov.: Old noble collection, Normandy. - The painting shows the tsar in the uniform of the Preobrashenki regiment, sporting the order of St. Anna, the order of St. Andrew as well as the Prussian Black Eagle order. - Russian portrait and water colour painter. S. was educated by Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitzky at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. In 1782 he received a fellowship and was afforded a study stay abroad, including studies at the Paris academy. Following his return to Saint Petersburg, S. was appointed a teacher at the academy in 1788 and was promoted a full academician in 1797. - Mus.: Moscow (Tropinin Museum), Saint Petersburg (Russian Museum, Painting Gallery of the Russian Academy of Arts), Stuttgart (State Museum of Wuerttemberg) et al. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Benezit.