„Portret w twierdzy” (o nieznanym obrazie A. I. Korzuchina)

Abstract

In the year 2006 in the one of the Polish antiquaries private collector has bought the painting of the young sad girl enclosed in the cell. It was executed on canvas of 72 x 52 cm size, signed and dated at the right edge of the painting in its centre - „Kopзyхинъ 1875” – name in Russian in Cyrillic alphabet. For the reason of the state of preservation the painting was conserved and restored. The paper outlines the history of the artist – Aleksiej Iwanowicz Korzuchin (1835–1894) famous in the past, at present a bit forgotten, yet still being one of the significant Russian painters specialized in genre scenes and portraits. The painting was analyzed in the aspect of its style. It example of the representative current of the 19th century Russian painting depicting decline of the feudal world and representing issues of the social equality. Further on the state of preservation as well as technical structure as well as technology were presented in detail, enabling statement of authenticity. At last the conservation-restoration treatment is described.