FEODOR PETROVICH CHUMAKOV (1823-1911) PASTEL PAINTING OF LADY PORTRAIT. Pastel on paper. Signed on left top. Collection stick on back. Image only size 16.5in by 12 in. With frame total size 26in by 20in.

FEODOR PETROVICH CHUMAKOV (Russia, 1823-1911). Historical painter and portraitist, from 1834 to 1840. he was educated at the St. Petersburg theatre school, from which he transferred to the Academy of Arts pensioner society for the encouragement of arts. Was it a student of Professor P. basin. Received during the passage of the academic year, two silver medals, small and large, for portrait sketches, was by illness to discontinue their studies in the Academy and awarded the title of artist with the right to XIV class, in 1850 went to Italy. On his return from there, in 1852, presented at academic painting exhibition: "the Girl from Albano" and "Bacchante" was recognized as an academician. In 1857, again went abroad and settled in Paris, where he often exhibited his works at the salon; one of them, "Torturing the Savior," in 1865, in particular, deserve praise magazine critics and was purchased by the French government. In 1866 he was brought to Saint Petersburg big picture "of the Savior and the rich man", which was acquired by Emperor Alexander II granted the Academy (it is in the Museum). Recently, Chumakov wrote almost exclusively portraits and ideal heads of young women in the taste of Dreams.

Provenance: From a private collection in New York.

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