Self-portrait in a white cap (color)

Taras Shevchenko (?). Self-portrait in a white cap.
[Orenburg]. [XI 1849 – IV 1850]. Oil on canvas (24.5 × 19.8 cm).

On the back of cardboard, to which a canvas glued, placed the inscription: By this certify that this Shevchenko's portrait painted by Taras Shevchenko himself. E. Murashko.

The time and place of this self-portrait making see note to previous portrait.

Also known copy 1856 of this self-portrait by the artist M.O., which was in the Tarnowski's museum in Chernigov and recorded in its directory under number 553. Location of the copy also unknown.

Previous storage: property Kwiatkowski, Ukrainian History Museum (Kyiv), Gallery paintings Shevchenko, Kharkiv.

National Taras Shevchenko Museum, USSR Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, inv. zh – 92.

Je.O. Sereda

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1963, v. 8, № 192 (image), p. 67 (notes).