Female Portrait
unknown
Basic information
- ID
- Ж-4866
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- Female Portrait
- Date of creation
- 1st half of the 19th c.
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- canvas oil
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 67.5 x 52
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- portraiture
- Plot
- Portrait
- Provenance
- Vasyl Stefanyk Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv
Information about author
Object description
The work is a waist-length portrait of a young aristocrat from the first half of the 19th century. The woman is dressed according to the fashion of the time. She wears a dark blue decolletage dress with a high waist and puffed sleeves. The outfit is complemented by a red cashmere shawl decorated with a ribbon featuring a boteh (or "Indian cucumber") pattern. The jewellery consists of two rows of pearls around the neck and earrings. Her dark hair is in a high updo with curls at the temples. Over her hairstyle is a white veil. Her facial features are soft and well-defined. She has a bright blush on her cheeks. Particular attention is drawn to the expressive black eyes of the portrayed woman, which seem to smile at the viewer across the centuries. The portrait is executed in the style of the Biedermeier period.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
