Grandfather. Sketch
Taras Shevchenko. Grandfather. Sketch of the painting "Catherine". Women's shirt sleeve. Sketch of the painting "Centurion's daughter". Other sketches.
[1841, end – 1842. St. Petersburg]. Paper, pencil. 26 × 36,5 cm.
Taras Shevchenko National Museum, № g – 414.
On the back – "Harvest. "Fire". "Blind woman with daughter", after the poem "Blind woman". Sketches. Illustrations "History of Suvorov" by N.A.Polevoj. Sketches.
Left top is marked by black pencil: 263 × 364; right: № 172 (catalog number in Tarnowski's Chernihiv Museum of Ukrainian antiquities); black ink: 544 and inscription in pencil: 1 rub.
Middle of the page – grandfather – figure sketch of the painting "Catherine"; above left – etude sleeve shirts to paintings "Centurion's daughter" (№ 252), top right – an outline of male figures.
Dated 1841 – 1842, by the time when artist working on paintings "Catherine", "Centurion's daughter", sketches based on the poem "Blind woman" and illustrations for the "History of Suvorov" by N.A.Polevoj, which on the back.
Registered by G.M. Chestahivsky in 1861 in description of the Shevchenko's drawings, which were in his academic workshops, at number 97 of pictures on the back of the sheet with the title "In the Harem" [Department of manuscripts and textology Institute of Literature. T.H. Shevchenko National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, fund 1, № 459].
Scientific description provided in 1900 [Catalog of V. Tarnowski's Museum of Ukrainian antiquity / arranged by B.D. Grinchenko. – Chernigov, 1900. – T. 2. – p. 174. – № 172]
Reproduced for the first time in 1961 [T. Shevchenko Complete Works: in 10 vol. – K., 1961. – Vol. 7, bk. 2. – p. 29. – № 270]
Mentioned with the name "Sketch of grandfather in the pasture" in 1914 [Novitsky Ol. Taras Shevchenko as a painter. – Lviv, Moscow, 1914. – p. 75. – № 548]
Storage areas: from April 1861 – property of M.M.Lazarevsky, later purchased by St. Petersburg's Ukrainian community, not earlier than July 1861 – A.O. Kozachkovsky, not later than 1875 came to 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, 1925 – Chernihiv Historical Museum, 1933 – Gallery of pictures by T.H. Shevchenko (Kharkiv), from 1948 – State Museum of T.H. Shevchenko (Kyiv).
Exhibition: 1929. Chernihiv. Shevchenko exhibition [Karachevska A. Exhibition of Taras Shevchenko: Guide. – Chernihiv, 1930. – p. 16. – № 5].
V.M. Yatsyuk
After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – K.: ed. of Acad. Sci. of UkrSSR, 1961, t. 7, bk. 2, № 270 (image); T.H. Shevchenko Complete Works in 12 volumes. – K.: Naukova Dumka, 2003, v. 7, p. 447 (notes).