Portrait of a woman with curls

Taras Shevchenko. Portrait of a woman with curls. [1840 – 1842. St. Petersburg]. Paper, pencil. 13,3 × 9,7 cm. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, № g – 637.

On the back is marked in pencil at the top: 133 × 1998; № 411 (catalog number in Tarnowski's Chernihiv Museum of Ukrainian antiquities).

First described by G.M. Chestahivsky in 1861 in description the drawings Shevchenko, which were in his academic workshops, at number 67 with the title "Portrait of a lady with curls".

Tentatively dated after similar women images of these years.

Scientific description provided by O.O. Rusov in 1894 titled "Girl in curled" [Rusov A. Collection of Shevchenko's drawings // Kievan antiquity. – 1894. – № 2. – p. 187].

Reproduced for the first time in 1914 with the name "Unknown lady" [Novitsky Ol. Taras Shevchenko as a painter. – Lviv, Moscow, 1914. – p. 43. – № 56. – Tab. 13].

Storage areas: from April 1861 – property of 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 Kakhovski family, not later than 1893 transferred to S.D. Brazol; since 1898 – a collection of V. Tarnowskі; from 1899 – V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities, 1925 – Chernihiv Historical Museum, 1933 – Gallery of pictures by T.H. Shevchenko (Kharkiv), from 1948 – State Museum of T.H. Shevchenko (Kyiv).

M.A. Korniychuk

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – K.: ed. of Acad. Sci. of UkrSSR, 1961, t. 7, bk. 2, № 249 (image); T.H. Shevchenko Complete Works in 12 volumes. – K.: Naukova Dumka, 2003, v. 7, p. 439 (notes).