Продам: The work of MI Lebedeva from the collection of IA Shlyapkin

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Lebedev, Mikhail Ivanovich
November 4, 1811 (Dorpat) - between 18 and 25 July 1837 (Naples)

Painter, graphic artist

Born into the family of a serf, in 1826 and recorded in the "philistine salary." He studied at the school at the University of Dorpat (1827-1829), where he received the first skills in drawing. At the request of the trustee of the University of Dorpat Count PA Palen determined to continue his education at the IAH means the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty.

He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1829-1833) in the class of landscape painting in M. Vorobyev. Advice of VE Raeva. In 1832, for "landscape composition" has been awarded a small silver medal, in the autumn of that year for the "View on Petrovsky Island in St. Petersburg" - a large silver medal. In 1833, for the painting "View of the surroundings of Lake Ladoga," received a gold medal and a certificate of title for the class artist grade 1.

By definition, the Board of IAH, "to respect the weakness of the physical forces that need to stay in a better climate, and in consideration of his great achievements in landscape painting," Spring 1834 sent to the pensioner's trip to Italy. On the way visit to Dorpat, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna. He worked in Rome and its environs - Albano, Ariccia, Castel Gandolfo. Enjoyed the patronage of KPBryullov. In the spring of 1837 he lived in Naples, went to the island of Capri and Sorrento. He died during a cholera epidemic.

Lebedev belongs to the largest landscape masters of the first half of the XIX century, in his work developed academic tradition. His early works are similar landscapes "venetsianovskoy school" ("Vasilkovo. Property Inspector of the Academy of Fine Arts AI Krutov," 1833). In the works of the Italian period, sought to truthful transmission of light and air and appearance of a particular locality. The increased brightness of colors, contrasts, and shaded the first plans shrouded air, bright sun, give details of romantic elation emotional structure of his paintings.

Lebedev works are in many museum collections, among them - the State Russian Museum, the Scientific Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, The Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum. Pushkin and others.

"Portrait of a Girl" 1831
Technique: paper, pencil, watercolor, whitewash
Size: 28x20 cm
Collected IA Shlyapkin, St. Petersburg

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