Valery ivanovich jacobi (1834-1902) "jesters at the court of empress anna ioannovna" the composition includes 26 figures: biron (sitting at her headboard) and the courtiers gathered in the ailing empress's bedroom and jesters playing leapfrog are trying to amuse them. These are m. A. Golitsyn (standing bent over) and n. F. Volkonsky (jumping on him), a. M. Apraksin (stretched out on the floor), the jester balakirev (towering above everyone), pedrillo (with a violin) and d'acosta (with a whip). Countess biron is by the bed, lady-in-waiting n. F. Lopukhina, her favorite count levenwolde and the duchess of hesse-homburg are playing cards at the table, behind them are count minich and prince n. Trubetskoy. Next to biron is his son with a whip and the head of the secret chancellery a. I. Ushakov. Next to him are sitting the future ruler anna leopoldovna, the french ambassador de chatardy and the physician-in-ordinary lestok. On the floor, near the bed is the dwarf-jester kalmyk buzheninova. To the side, near the perch with parrots is the poet v. K. Trediakovsky. At the entrance, the cabinet minister a. Volynsky looks on with indignation. Object Type: painting. Date: 1872. Dimensions: height: 132.5 cm (52.1 in); width: 212.3 cm (83.5 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Tretyakov Gallery. Jesters of empress Anna Ioanovna by V.Jacobi (1872)
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