Newspaper readers in Naples

Newspaper readers in Naples
ArtistOrest Kiprensky
Year1831
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions64,5 cm × 78,3 cm (254 in × 308 in)
LocationTretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Newspaper readers in Naples is a painting by the Russian artist Orest Kiprensky (1782–1836), painted in 1831. It belongs to the State Tretyakov Gallery (inv. 5100). The size of the painting is 64.5 × 78.3 cm.[1][2][3] It is titled Readers of Newspaper,[4] Newspaper Readers in Italy,[5][6] Reading a Newspaper, Travelers Reading the Gazette de France and others.[1] The painting is a group portrait of four men, one reading a newspaper and the others listening. The nationality of the figures in the painting has been interpreted differently by various researchers of Kiprensky's work: they have been called either Russian or Polish.[7]

The painting was created by Kiprensky in 1831 in Naples, commissioned by Count Dmitri Sheremetev.[8][9] In 1832 the canvas was exhibited in Rome, and in 1833 it was presented at the exhibition of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.[1] In general, the painting was a success: the president of the Academy of Arts, Alexey Olenin, wrote to Kiprensky that his works, "and especially Travelers, delighted the spectators, whose flock was extraordinary".[10] The painting was part of the collection of Dmitry Sheremetev, and then — of Feodor Pryanishnikov.[1] In 1867 it came to the collection of the Rumyantsev Museum[11] and in 1925 to the Tretyakov Gallery.[1][11]

Art historian Dmitry Sarabianov noted the "genre connotation" of the group portrait Newspaper Readers in Naples and considered the essential advantage of the fact that the images of the people depicted in the painting are "treated truthfully, without embellishments," and the plot chosen by Kiprensky "does not provoke that sentimental idealization that is so typical of his later 'Italian genres'".[12] For art historian Eugenia Petrova, the canvas is more than just a group portrait because "the theme is solved in a multifaceted way. According to the art historian Eugenia Petrova, the canvas is more than just a group portrait, because it "has a theme that is resolved in a very multifaceted and complex way".[13]

  1. ^ a b c d e Государственная Третьяковская галерея — каталог собрания / Я. В. Брук, Л. И. Иовлева. М.: СканРус, 2005. V. 3: Живопись первой половины XIX века. p. 196. ISBN 5-93221-081-8.
  2. ^ Кипренский Орест Адамович — Читатели газет в Неаполе (HTML). Государственная Третьяковская галерея — www.tretyakovgallery.ru. Дата обращения: 17 February 2022. Archive: 1 December 2018.
  3. ^ Кипренский Орест Адамович — «Читатели газет в Неаполе» (HTML). Государственный каталог Музейного фонда Российской Федерации — goskatalog.ru. Дата обращения: 17 February 2022. Archive: 22 June 2019.
  4. ^ Адам Мицкевич в русской печати. 1825—1955. М.—Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1957. p. 439.
  5. ^ Письма художников Павлу Михайловичу Третьякову: 1856—1869 / Н. Г. Галкина, М. Н. Григорьева. М.: Искусство, 1960. p. 310.
  6. ^ Московский публичный и Румянцевский музеи. Каталог картинной галереи. М.: Типография К. Л. Меньшова, 1908. p. 34.
  7. ^ Чайковская (2016, p. 162)
  8. ^ Ацаркина (1948, p. 219)
  9. ^ Майкапар (2010, p. 42)
  10. ^ Бочаров И. Н., Глушакова Ю. П. (2001, pp. 307–308)
  11. ^ a b Прянишников Фёдор Иванович (HTML). Румянцевский музей (виртуальная реконструкция) — www.rmuseum.ru. Дата обращения: 17 February 2022. Archive: 1 June 2018.
  12. ^ Сарабьянов (1982, p. 76)
  13. ^ Петрова (1993, p. 103)