Portrait of a girl with a dog

Taras Shevchenko. Portrait of a girl with a dog. 1838. [St. Petersburg].
Bristol paper, watercolour. 24,6 × 19,4 cm.
Taras Shevchenko National Museum, № g-885.

At the bottom left author's date and signature in pencil: 1838 // Шевченко.

Former owner of the work W. Batsmanov supposed that the portrait depicts daughter of leib-medic Fedorov [Vladych L. Two unknown portraits by T. Shevchenko / Visual Arts. – 1940. – № 2. – S. 25]. There are no documentary evidence for this suggestion.

First mentioned in 1939 in connection with exhibiting at the Jubilee Shevchenko Exhibition [Komsomolets Ukraine. – 1939. – March].

Reproduced for the first time in 1940 by L. Vladych [Vladych L. Two unknown portraits by T. Shevchenko. – S. 27].

Storage areas: property of M.O. Novoselsky; later – A.A. Novoselsky; from 1908 – V. Batsmanov; since 1937 – the Odessa Art Museum, Kyiv State Museum of Ukrainian Art; from 1938 – 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. – K., 1941. – S. 18. – № 88];

1968. Prague. Shevchenko exhibition [Taras Ševčenko: Výstava o životĕ a díle. – [Prague 1968]. – № 2/1];

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

I.M. Verykivska

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – K.: ed. of Acad. Sci. of UkrSSR, 1961, t. 7, bk. 1, № 13 (image); T.H. Shevchenko Complete Works in 12 volumes. – K.: Naukova Dumka, 2003, v. 7, p. 367 (notes).