Peasant family. Sketch (fol. 5 r.)

Taras Shevchenko. Peasant family. Sketch. Pencil. [Not before May 1843]. Institute of Literature National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, inv. number 106 (album 1839 – 1843).

Right at the top marked: 5 (sheet number in the album 1839 – 1843). Right below: 8.

Barely outlined one of the early sketches for the Taras Shevchenko's painting "Peasant family".

Dated by time of the first trip Shevchenko in Ukraine.

On the back – In Kiev. Etude.

Storage areas within the Album: no later than 1885 – came to the V.V. Tarnowski's collection; from 1899 – V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities, 1925 – Chernihiv Historical Museum, 1933 – Taras Shevchenko institute; since 1936 – Shevchenko Institute of ukrainian literature.

Z.V. Lashkul

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1961, Vol. 7, part 2, № 164 (image), p. 5 (note).