Portrait of P.V. Enhelhardt

Taras Shevchenko. Portrait of P.V. Enhelhardt. 1833. [St. Petersburg].
Bristol paper, watercolour. 10,3 × 8,4 cm
Taras Shevchenko National Museum, № g-857.

Left bottom author's date and signature in watercolor: 1833. Шевченко.

Portrait of P.V. Enhelhardt – the earliest known watercolor work of Shevchenko, common in the genre at the time watercolor portrait miniatures. Enhelhardt Paul V. (1798 – 1849) – landowner, the slave of whom was Shevchenko.

As an Enhelhardt's portrait introduced to the science by A.P. Novitsky on the testimony of I.E. Tsvetkov (then-owner of a portrait), which, in turn, with this legend could get from Vasily Pavlovich Enhelhardt (the son of depicted) [Novitsky, Ol. Taras Shevchenko as a painter. – Lviv, Moscow, 1914. – S. 40. – № 38]. Attribution confirmed by comparison with other images exactly P.V. Enhelhardt [Historical Journal. – 1911. – № 5. – S. 537].

Reproduced for the first time in 1925 (in publishing technology mistakenly designated as "pencil") [Shevchenko and his era: Collection 1. – [K.], 1925. – Between the pp. 20 – 21].

Storage areas: Enhelhardt's family, in the beginning 1910th – I.E. Tsvetkov, since 1924 – the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow); from 1929 – Taras Shevchenko Institute; from 1932 – Gallery of pictures by T.H. Shevchenko (Kharkiv), from 1940 – Central Museum of T.H. Shevchenko (Kyiv); from 1948 – State Museum of T.H. Shevchenko (Kyiv).

Exhibitions:

1939. Kyiv. Shevchenko Jubilee Exhibition [Republican Shevchenko Jubilee Exhibition in Kiev: Product-guide. – S. 17. – № 82];

1984. Kyiv. Shevchenko-artist. 170-th birthday [Shevchenko-artist: Exhibition Catalogue. – K., 1986. – P. 7];

1985. Kyiv. Museum of Kyiv. Shevchenko-portrait (no catalogue).

I.M. Verykivska

After publication: T.H. Shevchenko Complete Works in 12 volumes. – K.: Naukova Dumka, 2003, v. 7, p. 16 – 17 (image), p. 356 (notes).