Genre scene. Sketch
Taras Shevchenko. Genre scene. Sketch. [1843, not later than May. St. Petersburg]. Pencil on paper. 11,1 × 14 cm. National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, № g-647.
On the back left an inscription in pencil: 111 × 140 and ink: number 338, right in pencil: number 421 (catalog number Chernigov Ukrainian museum of antiquities).
Perhaps this is a sketch to watercolor "In the harem". Dated estimated time of watercolors, not later than May 1843. There is similar composition.
Scientific description provided in 1900 with the title "Lying woman" [Catalog of V. Tarnowski's Museum of Ukrainian antiquity / arranged by B.D. Grinchenko. – Chernigov, 1900. – T. 2. – P. 192. – № 421].
Reproduced for the first time in 1932 by A.P. Novitsky [Shevchenko T. Complete Works. – [X., 1932. – T. 8]. – P. 35. – № 259. – T. 134].
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, from 1925 – Chernihiv Historical Museum, from 1933 – Gallery of pictures by T.H. Shevchenko (Kharkiv), from 1948 – National Museum of T.H. Shevchenko (Kyiv).
A.G. Vartanova, V. A. Sudak
After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1961, Vol. 7, part 2, № 252 (image); T.H. Shevchenko Complete works in 12 volumes. – Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, 2003, v. 7, p. 455 (note).