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Catholic monk. Sketch

Taras Shevchenko. Catholic monk. Sketch

Taras Shevchenko. Catholic monk. Illustration to the story "Willpower. Memoirs of traveler" by N.I. Nadezhdin. Sketch.
[1839, no later than February 12. St. Petersburg].
Bristol paper, pencil. 14 × 11,3 cm.
Taras Shevchenko National Museum, № g-413.

On the back – "Catholic monk. Outline sketches.

Registered in 1861 by G.M. Chestahivsky in the list of Shevchenko's drawings, found in his academic workshops, at number 91 [Department of Manuscripts and Textual Institute of Literature. T.H. Shevchenko National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, f. 1, № 459].

About the artwork published between pages 398 – 399 of book, and its execution time, see in comments. The sketch is dated the same.

First described by O.O. Rusov 1894 [Rusov O. Collection of Shevchenko's drawings // Kievan antiquity. – 1894. – № 2. – S. 187]

Reproduced for the first time in 1932 by O.P. Novitsky [T. Shevchenko Complete Works, – [Kharkiv, 1932. – T. 8]. – S. 37. – № 273. – Tab. 138].

Storage areas: from April 1861 – in M.M. Lazarevsky, later purchased by St. Petersburg's Ukrainian community, not earlier than July 1861 – A.O. Kozachkovsky, not later than 1875 came to V.P. Kakhovski; from 1891 – family Kakhovski; moved no later than 1893 to S.D. Brazol; since 1898 – in a collection of V. Tarnowskі; from 1899 – V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities, 1925 – Chernihiv Historical Museum, from 1932 – Gallery of pictures by T.H. Shevchenko (Kharkiv), with 1948 – State Museum of T.H. Shevchenko (Kyiv).

Exhibitions:

1929. Chernihiv. Shevchenko exhibition [Karachevska A. Exhibition of Taras Shevchenko: guide. – Chernihiv, 1930. – S. 17];

1974. Kyiv. Works from the collection of Taras Shevchenko [Artworks in own collection of Taras Shevchenko: Exhibition Catalogue. – K., 1974. – S. 8].

V.O. Sudak

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – K.: ed. of Acad. Sci. of UkrSSR, 1961, t. 7, bk. 2, № 260 (image); T.H. Shevchenko Complete Works in 12 volumes. – K.: Naukova Dumka, 2003, v. 7, p. 424 – 425 (notes).