Exhibitions: Children's portraits of the second half of the XVIII - the early XX century are shown in Moscow

“Yet, childhood memories enjoying…" Children's portrait of the second half of the XVIII – the early XX century" exhibition from the collection of the State Pushkin Museum with a participation of the Museum of V. A. Tropinin and Moscow Artists of His Time, the Artistic and Pedagogical Museum of a Toy of the Higher School of Folk Arts (Sergiev Posad) and private collections, will run from February 18 to June 6, 2016, at the State Pushkin Museum (Moscow).

The exhibition features more than 170 pictorial, miniature and graphic portraits of children, created by Russian and Western European masters, serf and unknown artists, who worked on demand of the inhabitants of noble mansions. A chronological principle as an origin of art exhibition allows to see how created by the portraitists children imagery has been changed over the two centuries, which accents were added into these pictures every era, and to enjoy the art features and advantages of these works.

The State A. S. Pushkin Museum completes a collection of children's portraits since its foundation. A time frame of this gathering is from the XVIII century to the beginning of the XX century. The collection is constantly updated. Among the recent acquisitions are created by a serf artist Gregory Ozerov pictorial paired portraits of brothers Dmitry and Nicholay Yankovs (1800); “A Boy with a Blue Ribbon” (1853) - an outstanding watercolor belonging to a hand of a master of the Austrian school Leopold Fischer; a work of a famous English artist Thomas Wright, entitled “A Portrait of a Boy in a Blue Shirt”; a little-known in domestic collections work of Swiss artist Karl Gernler “A Boy with a Butterfly net against a Landscape” (1849); and first introduced watercolor depicting a young baron M. K. Klodt von Jurgensburg (1850), the future landscape artist, performed by of A. A. Popov.

Children's photographic portrait of the late XIX - the early XX century is a separate theme of the exhibition. These photos captures chronologically, aesthetically pleasing and informative a time before the tragic revolutionary upheavals.

The exhibition also shows the objects of arts and crafts, toys and board games, without which it is impossible to imagine a cozy atmosphere of a nursery. The books, the almanacs and magazines, as well as rare instances of split alphabets and the drawing, musical literacy, and calligraphy manuals give an idea of the children’s reading scope.