An exhibition "Karl Bryullov: Portraits from the Private Assembly of St. Petersburg" opens today in the Tretyakov Gallery

The exhibition "Karl Bryullov: Portraits from the Private Collection of St. Petersburg" introduces the Moscow public to the eight works of the largest Russian artist of the first half of the XIX century for the first time.

Demonstration of paintings next to the master's masterpieces in the exposition halls of the Tretyakov Gallery complements the idea of ​​Briullov's artistic heritage, and also gives the viewer a rare opportunity to get acquainted with so significant works known only to specialists. Such exhibitions introduce into the general cultural context pictures hidden from the eyes of the general public, "fasten links in the general chain" of the history of Russian art.

Portraits from the private collection of St. Petersburg, presented in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery, were performed by K.P. Bryullov in different periods of creativity. They demonstrate peculiar typological structures of the portrait image: ceremonial and chamber images, group family portrait, equestrian portrait-walk, self-portraits.

Bryullov the portraitist proceeded, first of all, from the features of the model. For the painter, the main thing remained a man with his unique individual traits and a special spiritual mood. The composition of each portrait found, its coloristic decision always sounded in unison with the inner world of the people depicted.

The owner of the collection is the great-great-grandson of the architect Alexander Bryullov, the elder brother of the painter Karl Bryullov. From his illustrious relatives, the collector inherited the family relic "The Portrait of the Abbot" (late 1830s). Remarkable in terms of skill and expressiveness, the work has always been in the field of view of researchers. Thus, the portrait was exhibited at an exhibition of paintings and rare works belonging to members of the imperial house and private persons of Petersburg (1861) and at the Historical and Art Exhibition of Russian Portraits, held in the Tauride Palace (1905).

As part of the exhibition project for the first time in the Tretyakov Gallery will be exhibited "Portrait of A.K. Demidova "(1836-1837) K.P. Bryullov from the State Complex "Congress Palace" in Strelna. This picture the Tretyakov Gallery tried to acquire in 1995 and 2007 at auction auction Sotheby's in London.

24 January - 24 June 2018
Tretyakov Gallery, Lavrushinsky Lane, 10, room 11