Russian Art
Tropinin, V. A.
"Pavel Mikhailovich Vasiliev, Portrait". 1830s
Notes: Portrait of Pavel Mikhailovich Vasiliev (1798-1854), accountant of the Moscow Imperial Theaters office and music lover
This particularly sympathetic portrait of Pavel Vasiliev, presented with a dignity reminiscent of French eighteenth-century portraiture, is one of many by Vasily Tropinin that celebrate the success and emerging status of the new Russian middle class.
