Portrait of Nastas’ya Levitzkaya, Dmitry Levitzky, 1783

The portrait was purchased by the state procurement commission of the ministry of culture of the ussr in 1951 from a private individual. It was combined on a board with another portrait of a man. The portrait was transferred to the chelyabinsk oblast art gallery as “the portrait of unknown woman” painted by an unknown artist; then it was attributed to dmitry levitzky and identified as the portrait of nastas’ya yakovlevna levitzkaya, the wife of the painter. The portrait of a man was identified as the self-portrait of dmitry levitzky. Date: 1783. Dimensions: height: 20.9 cm (8.2 in); width: 16.7 cm (6.5 in). Medium: cardboard, oil. Collection: Chelyabinsk State Art Museum. Dmitry Levitzky 35