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In the harem. Sketch (3)

Taras Shevchenko. In the harem. Sketch…

Taras Shevchenko. In the harem. Sketches and other sketches.
[1843, not later than May. St. Petersburg].
Pencil on paper. 17,6 × 23,2 cm.
Taras Shevchenko National Museum, № g-416.

On the back – "In the harem". Sketch.

Above the picture above author's inscription: Kyan horror were talking! Right at the top marked with blue ink: 515, in pencil: number 174 (catalog number Chernigov Ukrainian museum of antiquities) at the bottom in pencil, probably by the hand of G.M. Chestahivsky: number 100 (number in his description).

Right – sketch of a horse, left and right – undefined outlines.

Registered by G.M. Chestahivsky in 1861 in description the Shevchenko's graphics, that were in his academic workshop at No. 100 with the title "Sultan and turk woman on the couch" [Department of manuscripts and textology Shevchenko Literature institute National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, fund 1, № 459].

Sketch is a variant of composition watercolors of the same name.

Dated estimated time of watercolors, not later than May 1843.

Scientific description provided by A.A. Rusov in 1894 [Rusov A. Collection drawings Shevchenko // Kievan Antiquity. – 1894. – № 2. – P. 187]

Reproduced for the first time in 1961 [Shevchenko T. Complete works in 10 volumes. – K., 1961. – Vol. 7, part 2. – P. 33. – № 282]

Storage areas: in April 1861 – property of M.M.Lazarevsky, later purchased by St. Petersburg's Ukrainian community, not earlier than July 1861 – A.O. Kozachkovsky, no later than 1875 was received by the 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, from 1929 – Chernihiv Historical Museum, from 1932 – Gallery of pictures by T.H. Shevchenko (Kharkiv), from 1948 – National Museum of T.H. Shevchenko (Kyiv).

Exhibition: 1974. Kyiv. Works from the collection of Taras Shevchenko [Art works in his collection of Taras Shevchenko: Exhibition Catalogue. – K., 1974. – P. 8].

A.G. Vartanova, V. A. Sudak

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1961, Vol. 7, part 2, № 282 (image); T.H. Shevchenko Complete works in 12 volumes. – Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, 2003, v. 7, p. 457 (note).