Sitter (fol. 25 v.)

Taras Shevchenko. Sitter. Studies to exam drawing "Two sitters". [1840, mid-December. St. Petersburg]. Paper, pencil. 17,7 × 26,5 cm.
Department of manuscripts and textology Shevchenko Literature institute
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, fund 1, № 106.

On the back – "The lecture I.V. Buyalsky on osteology. Sketch. Other sketches.

Sketches made on the back of the 25th sheet, and later attached to the album of 1840 – 1844 marked with ink at the bottom right: 47 (number of page in album).

On page – outline sketches shoulder joint, sitter's back and separately left foot – preparatory exercises for exam work "Two sitters», presented at the drawing exam December 24, 1840 [Yatsyuk V. Attributing some Shevchenko paintings // Folk art and ethnography. – 1984. – № 2. – p. 19 – 20] Preliminary figures made of Stephen sitter.

Dated approximately mid-December 1840, given the fact that for the performance of the examination drawings from nature Academy students were given two weeks.

First mentioned by V.P. Gorlenko in 1886 [Gorlenko V. Shevchenko's albums and pictures in V.V. Tarnowski's collection // Kievan antiquity. – 1886. – № 2. – P. 404]

Reproduced for the first time in 1932 by A.P. Novitsky called "Three sketches of sitters" [T. Shevchenko Complete Works. – [Kharkiv, 1932. – T. 8]. – p. 25. – № 202. – Tab. 132].

Storage sites within the Album: no later than 1885 was received by V. Tarnowskі; from 1899 – V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities, 1925 – Chernihiv Historical Museum, 1933 – Taras Shevchenko institute; since 1936 – Shevchenko Institute of ukrainian literature.

Exhibition: 1929. Chernihiv. Shevchenko exhibition [Karachevska A. Exhibition of Taras Shevchenko: Guide. – Chernihiv, 1930. – p. 30. – № 10].

I.M. Verykivska

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – K.: ed. of Acad. Sci. of UkrSSR, 1961, t. 7, bk. 2, № 196 (image); T.H. Shevchenko Complete Works in 12 volumes. – K.: Naukova Dumka, 2003, v. 7, p. 430 (notes).