Female figure

Taras Shevchenko. Female figure, sunflower, gourd leaves et al. Essays and sketches. Stained paper and pencil (12.9 × 34.3 cm). [Novopetrovsk fort]. [Summer 1854]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 582.

Top right ink marked: Number 117 – 157.

Dated by similarity to sketch images of plants in figures 155 and 157, which included as details in drawings number 40, 41 made in 1854.

Storage areas: collections of A. A. Kozachkovsky, V. P. Kakhovski, S. D. Brazol, V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities – № 347, Chernihiv Historical Museum, Gallery of pictures by T.H. Shevchenko (Kharkiv).

V. O. Sudak

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1964, Vol. 9, № 154 (image), p. 70 (note).