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Ivan Argunov Portrait of Countess Tolstaya, nee Lopukhina oil painting on canvas
Portrait of Countess Tolstaya, nee Lopukhina
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Ivan Argunov Portrait of Countess Tolstaya, nee Lopukhina oil painting on canvas



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  Ivan Argunov
  Russian Rococo Era Painter , 1727/1729-1802 Russian painter and teacher. He came from a family of serfs, belonging to the Counts Sheremetev, that produced several painters and architects. In about 1746-7 he was a pupil of Georg Christoph Grooth (1716-49), who painted portraits of the Sheremetev family. With Grooth, Argunov worked on the decoration of the court church at Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin). A full-length icon of St John of Damascus (1749; Pushkin, Pal.-Mus.), in Rococo style, is distinguished by its secular, decorative character. The Dying Cleopatra (1750; Moscow, Tret'yakov Gal.) is typical of Rococo decorative painting of the mid-18th century, with its striking combination of light, soft tones. Argunov subsequently painted in a quite different style, mainly producing portraits, of which about 60 are known. Among the first of these are pendant portraits of Ivan Lobanov-Rostovsky and his wife (1750 and 1754; St Petersburg, Rus. Mus.), in which the sitters are idealized, as in ceremonial court portraits.
  Portrait of Countess Tolstaya, nee Lopukhina
  1768(1768) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 96.5 x 78.5 cm (38 x 30.9 in) cjr

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