Portrait of an officer

Taras Shevchenko. Portrait of an officer. Paper, sepia (20.6 × 16.3 cm). [Novopetrovsk fort]. [1854]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 378.

On the back of the top middle – ink inscription: Work by Taras Shevchenko 1854, Novo Petrovsk fort.

The number "23 " on the officer epaulets – a number Infantry Division, to which was included at the time of exile a soldier Shevchenko.

Storage areas: State Museum of Ukrainian Art in Odessa, Gallery of pictures Shevchenko, Kharkiv.

V. O. Sudak

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1964, Vol. 9, № 44 (image), p. 28 (note).