Completed according to the program set on january 24, 1773, "to paint a generational portrait of a teacher with two pupils of the first and third ages in the exercise of learning history and geography and to present the teacher sitting and practicing in interpreting sciences to the third age. And the boy of the first age should be in the embrace of one teacher's arm with an imitative and attentive face. " after the author was awarded a large gold medal, the portrait entered the museum of the iah. In the museum of the institute of russian literature (pushkin house) there is a copy of this work, previously considered to be an image of timofey aksakov with his sons, then sergei and nikolai aksakov with their teacher grigory kartashevsky. The definition of the character as a teacher of history and geography baudouin belongs to n. I. Nikulina. Baudouin entered the service of the academy of arts in october 1772. In january 1773, the council of the academy instructed him "to make a prospectus with general history, and especially concerning the arts. " in march, the prospectus was "tested, a year later, in march 1774, baudouin left the academy for "particular" service. In the lists of teachers of moscow university for the 1790s, stepan fedorovich baudouin is listed. However, it cannot be said with certainty that this is the same character depicted in the painting by mikhail belsky. Object Type: painting. Date: 1773. Dimensions: height: 117.5 cm (46.2 in); width: 102.5 cm (40.3 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Russian Museum. Mikhail Ivanovich Belsky, Portrait of the History and Geography Teacher Baudouin with Two Academy of Arts Pupils of the First and Third Grades, 1773, Russian Museum Ж-8737
Loading...
