A woman in a sundress

Taras Shevchenko. A woman in a sundress. Sketch. Other sketches.
[1841 – 1842. St. Petersburg]. Paper, pencil. 27,5 × 19,2 cm.
Taras Shevchenko National Museum, № g – 638.

Top right is marked with ink: № 116-18.

Scientific description provided in 1900 with the title "Russian woman in costume" [Catalog of V. Tarnowski's Museum of Ukrainian antiquity / arranged by B.D. Grinchenko. – Chernigov, 1900. – T. 2. – p. 191. – № 412].

Reproduced for the first time in 1932 by A.P. Novitsky [T. Shevchenko Complete Works. – [Kharkiv, 1932. – T. 8]. – P. 147. – № 920. – Tab. 310].

In the literature mentions with name "Unknown woman in muscovite attire" [Novitsky Ol. Taras Shevchenko as a painter. – Lviv, Moscow, 1914. – p. 43. – № 57].

V. Kasian believes that this figure "for stylistic features alien to Shevchenko" [Kasian V. A new study in artistic heritage Shevchenko // Shevchenko – artist: Materials Shevchenko scientific conference devoted to 100 anniversary of the death of Shevchenko. – K., 1963. – p. 30].

Storage sites: property of 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).

K.V. Chumak

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – K.: ed. of Acad. Sci. of UkrSSR, 1961, t. 7, bk. 2, № 259 (image); T.H. Shevchenko Complete Works in 12 volumes. – K.: Naukova Dumka, 2003, v. 7, p. 448 (notes).