Help with a portrait

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Сообщение от Vechnost

I feel unprofessional use of white, that in the Russian school of painting is unacceptable.

And what school of painting acceptable "unprofessional use of white?

[Vechnost]

Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky

In what school of painting acceptable "unprofessional use of white"?

Thanks ... Cyril, as well ... does not match the Russian school of painting ...?

[LCR]

Сообщение от Vechnost

Thank you ... Cyril, as well ... does not match the Russian school of painting ...?

Well, if "both", then the following question: what school is "unprofessional use of white" meet?

[Vechnost]

Сообщение от LCR

Well, if "both", then the following question: what school is "unprofessional use of white" corresponds to?

In this portrait there is no school ...

[K-Maler]

Сообщение от Stanislavsky

Help with the identification of the portrait. I think that it is a Russian school. I would be grateful for any information.

There seems to be key in the book "... It's small, are - or poetry, or the gospel road (something religious). He reads with awe ... He was strangely dressed, poor coat almost naked body, his shirt unbuttoned too but there is something like a scarf. This is clearly a portrait, perhaps this man was something known. But in Russian it's not like we have such a suit was not adopted. At the condemned, he, too, did not seem to like, although such a thought flashed ...

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Сообщение от LCR

y, if "both", then the following question: what school is "unprofessional use of white" corresponds to?

It is not entirely clear what is written portrait. Whitewash really "climb", but if it was mixed with tempera, then more understandable ... Here is important to determine who is depicted.

[uriart]

Once all sounds unique: "Help with the portrait!"
I have a number of portraits. And also it would be interesting to know who and whose work is shown.
And even just who is depicted on the condition that the author is known.
I can put such a puzzle if the community would be interested.
So, to begin with?

[Кирилл Сызранский]

uriart, if you are very interesting ...
  This is an old and common problem-definition or clarification of the individual images.
And in general, iconographic identification of a particular genre-attribution, which requires knowledge of history.

[uriart]

Of course I'm interested!
It wants to know more about what you have.
That's not so long ago bought a pair of portraits.
All I know is that their origins from the western Ukraine.
It would be interesting to hear the opinion forumchan.

[Кирилл Сызранский]

uriart, portrait miniatures? What size? The height of the oval?

[uriart]

The total size, including the field 143h122mm