S. A. Antonov girl plucking a flower. 1842 oil on canvas. 89 x 72 bottom right: s. Antonov i 18-42. Received in 1931 from shop #68 of lentorgsin zh-3742 for this painting, called “russian girl plucking a flower”, antonov received the title of free artist in 1842. Depicting a scene from the life of ordinary people, the artist, who came from the st. Petersburg bourgeoisie, a freelance (“outsider”, as they wrote in documents of that time) student of the academy of arts, paid much attention not so much to the psychological characteristics of the image as to the details. Having outlined a stove in the background, as if made of granite blocks, the artist carefully painted a girl with a braid, in an elegant sarafan, fortune-telling on the petals of a flower. The exquisite bouquet, standing on the table of a peasant house, seems to have come from the paintings of dutch artists, which antonov could have seen in the hermitage and carefully reproduced, demonstrating his skill. Object Type: painting. Date: 1842.
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