A woman who sits. Sketch
Taras Shevchenko. A woman who sits. Sketch.
[1839 – 1843, the beginning. St. Petersburg]. Pencil on paper. 15,0 × 13,0 cm
Taras Shevchenko National Museum, № g – 644.
The back is marked with ink at the top: number 341, in pencil: number 418 (catalog number Chernigov Ukrainian museum of antiquities) 150 × 130.
Dated approximately by similarity to other sketches of these years, "Portrait of a woman", "The man on the shore" [Shevchenko T. Complete works in 10 volumes. – K., 1961. – Vol. 7, part 2. – C 25. – № 250].
Scientific description provided in 1900 called "The woman leaned" [Catalog of V. Tarnowski's Museum of Ukrainian antiquity / arranged by B.D. Grinchenko. – Chernigov, 1900. – T. 2. – P. 192. – № 418].
Reproduced for the first time in 1932 by A.P. Novitsky [Shevchenko T. Complete Works. – [X., 1932. – T. 8]. – C 41. – № 299. – T. 139].
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, from 1898 – came to 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), with 1948 the State Museum of Taras Shevchenko (Kyiv).
M.A. Korniychuk
After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1961, Vol. 7, part 2, № 250 (image); T.H. Shevchenko Complete works in 12 volumes. – Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, 2003, v. 7, p. 450 (note).