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Portrait Of Alexandra Petrovna Struisky
Fedor Stepanovich Rokotov • Painting, 1772, 47.5×59.8 cm
Description of the artwork «Portrait Of Alexandra Petrovna Struisky»
Alexandra Ozerova, in marriage Struiskaya, hardly suspected that in the future, 200 years later, it will be admired by the descendants, and innocent, and absolutely deaf to art students will be forced to write essays about her elusive beauty.
If could Alexandra, like many vain beauties of the eighteenth century, to nurture the vague hope that it will perpetuate the arts, at least, connected them with long-winded poems of her own husband, but certainly not too "modest", according to the ideas of the era, a portrait of Rokotov.
Poems Nicholas Eremeevicha Troickogo, enthusiastic and frantic scribbler-choleric, not ustavshih sing wife and called her "sapphire", were printed on expensive paper in a specially built for this purpose press in their estate Ruzaevka, with state of the art equipment and experienced printers. All the masterpieces of the printing art (the quality of execution they do in Russia was not equal) from the printers Struisky immediately sent to the Empress Catherine II that she could boast in front of their enlightened foreign visitors.
And what about portrait written by a friend of the family Rokotov in the year when 18-year-old Sasha became the wife Troickogo? Nothing! Was just left hanging in one of the far and dark rooms. It is clearly not enough impressed to Alexander Petrovna: it is known that in the front hall she ordered another to hang your portrait – generational or in full growth and in a dress with a farthingale.
Roars would be to write Stoykoy. He did not like the pompous ceremonial portraits. He was the only one of its era for an artist who could easily ignore the multicolored splendor of the costumes, shimmering silks and frothy lace, which are loved court the Italians and French. He even didn't write a background with complex composition with still life, like his contemporary and rival Levitsky. It was all alien to him endlessly. By and large, Rokotov was only interested in the model's face and the features of her inner world, which he only was able to bring to life on their portraits. "Soul changeable signs to transfer to canvas" – tell about a method Rokotova poet Nikolay Zabolotsky, one of the many fans of "the Russian Mona Lisa".
About the model rokotovskie portrait memoirs is known not too much but enough. She was friendly, courteous and welcoming hostess. Sweet and calm. Guests Troickogo afraid of the strangeness, but the warmth and hospitality of Alexandra smoothed them. Her husband gave birth to 18 children, of whom as many as 4 sets of twins. Some of the children died at birth or in infancy, but most Alexandra was able to rouse and bring to the people. It by as much as 43 years outlived her original husband, but life kept his memory alive, leaving inviolable the situation in his office. Rumors about the affair Struisky and rokotoff, apparently, just a figment of the romantic imagination of the audience.
Alexandra did not know about the little secret Rokotov and Troickogo they prefer to hide. The fact that she was the first love of Nicholas Eremeevicha. In early youth he was already married and 20 years remained a widower. In the Penza estate Struisky was long preserved "Portrait of an unknown man in a cocked hat". A handsome young man with a healthy glow. Beautiful lip print. With a soft smile. The prototype is not known. When the painting fell into the hands of researchers who initially decided that this portrait of Alexei Bobrinsky, illegitimate son of Catherine II and Grigory Orlov (a long time ago Rokotov wrote him as a baby). It has not been clear just why the portrait monument was stored in a family gathering Troickogo.
Came to the aid of the latest methods of research: x-rays became evident that the male coat and cocked hat appears on a womens dress, but the face remained unchanged. Thus was born the theory that this portrait of his first wife Troickogo Olympics Sergeyevna. With the complicity of Rokotov Nikolai eremeevicha on the eve of a new marriage ensured that the second Struisky not have the slightest reason to be upset or jealous.
Alexander on the portrait Rokotov written naturally and easy. No gimmicks and fads. No complicated styling and complex outfits. No affectation. Not understand what she was thinking. Not to answer even what colors predominate in the portrait is so smooth and subtle color shades. Everything is vague and mysterious. This is "stealing beauty", shimmering, captivating, unspoken and fully appreciated only in the twentieth century.
Author: Anna Yesterday
If could Alexandra, like many vain beauties of the eighteenth century, to nurture the vague hope that it will perpetuate the arts, at least, connected them with long-winded poems of her own husband, but certainly not too "modest", according to the ideas of the era, a portrait of Rokotov.
Poems Nicholas Eremeevicha Troickogo, enthusiastic and frantic scribbler-choleric, not ustavshih sing wife and called her "sapphire", were printed on expensive paper in a specially built for this purpose press in their estate Ruzaevka, with state of the art equipment and experienced printers. All the masterpieces of the printing art (the quality of execution they do in Russia was not equal) from the printers Struisky immediately sent to the Empress Catherine II that she could boast in front of their enlightened foreign visitors.
And what about portrait written by a friend of the family Rokotov in the year when 18-year-old Sasha became the wife Troickogo? Nothing! Was just left hanging in one of the far and dark rooms. It is clearly not enough impressed to Alexander Petrovna: it is known that in the front hall she ordered another to hang your portrait – generational or in full growth and in a dress with a farthingale.
Roars would be to write Stoykoy. He did not like the pompous ceremonial portraits. He was the only one of its era for an artist who could easily ignore the multicolored splendor of the costumes, shimmering silks and frothy lace, which are loved court the Italians and French. He even didn't write a background with complex composition with still life, like his contemporary and rival Levitsky. It was all alien to him endlessly. By and large, Rokotov was only interested in the model's face and the features of her inner world, which he only was able to bring to life on their portraits. "Soul changeable signs to transfer to canvas" – tell about a method Rokotova poet Nikolay Zabolotsky, one of the many fans of "the Russian Mona Lisa".
About the model rokotovskie portrait memoirs is known not too much but enough. She was friendly, courteous and welcoming hostess. Sweet and calm. Guests Troickogo afraid of the strangeness, but the warmth and hospitality of Alexandra smoothed them. Her husband gave birth to 18 children, of whom as many as 4 sets of twins. Some of the children died at birth or in infancy, but most Alexandra was able to rouse and bring to the people. It by as much as 43 years outlived her original husband, but life kept his memory alive, leaving inviolable the situation in his office. Rumors about the affair Struisky and rokotoff, apparently, just a figment of the romantic imagination of the audience.
Alexandra did not know about the little secret Rokotov and Troickogo they prefer to hide. The fact that she was the first love of Nicholas Eremeevicha. In early youth he was already married and 20 years remained a widower. In the Penza estate Struisky was long preserved "Portrait of an unknown man in a cocked hat". A handsome young man with a healthy glow. Beautiful lip print. With a soft smile. The prototype is not known. When the painting fell into the hands of researchers who initially decided that this portrait of Alexei Bobrinsky, illegitimate son of Catherine II and Grigory Orlov (a long time ago Rokotov wrote him as a baby). It has not been clear just why the portrait monument was stored in a family gathering Troickogo.
Came to the aid of the latest methods of research: x-rays became evident that the male coat and cocked hat appears on a womens dress, but the face remained unchanged. Thus was born the theory that this portrait of his first wife Troickogo Olympics Sergeyevna. With the complicity of Rokotov Nikolai eremeevicha on the eve of a new marriage ensured that the second Struisky not have the slightest reason to be upset or jealous.
Alexander on the portrait Rokotov written naturally and easy. No gimmicks and fads. No complicated styling and complex outfits. No affectation. Not understand what she was thinking. Not to answer even what colors predominate in the portrait is so smooth and subtle color shades. Everything is vague and mysterious. This is "stealing beauty", shimmering, captivating, unspoken and fully appreciated only in the twentieth century.
Author: Anna Yesterday
