| Major's marriage proposal | |
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| Artist | Pavel Fedotov |
| Year | 1848 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 58,3 cm × 75,4 cm (230 in × 297 in) |
| Location | Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
Major's marriage proposal is a painting by the Russian artist Pavel Fedotov (1815-1852), painted in 1848. It is owned by the State Tretyakov Gallery (inv. 5210). The size of the painting is 58.3×75.4 cm.[1][2]
Pavel Fedotov began to work on the canvas "Major's marriage proposal" (also known as "The Major's Marriage") in 1848; the painting was completed in the same year.[3] In the fall of 1849, the canvas, titled "Correction of Circumstances, or Matchmaking", was exhibited at the Academy of Arts along with two other earlier paintings by the artist, "The Fresh Cavalier" (1846) and "The Discerning Bride" (1847).[3][4] According to Alexander Benois, Fedotov's paintings had "a colossal success at the exhibition, unprecedented since the time of 'Pompeii".[5] The Academy of Arts awarded Fedotov the title of Academician for his painting "Major's marriage proposal".[3]
Art historian Galina Leontieva wrote that "Major's marriage proposal" is "one of the most remarkable works of Russian painting of the first half of the 19th century", which "due to the amazing truth of the characters, the significance of the problem raised in it turned out to be much more serious than the original idea of the artist".[6] The art historian Dmitry Sarabianov called the painting "one of the highest achievements of Fedotov in the field of pictorial art".[7]
A variant of "Major's marriage proposal", which the artist worked on in 1850-1852, is kept in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (canvas, oil, 56×76 cm, inv. Zh-4521).[8][9][10] Although the subject and composition are generally preserved, the version in the Russian Museum has a number of significant differences from the painting in the Tretyakov Gallery.[11]
- ^ Государственная Третьяковская галерея — каталог собрания / Я. В. Брук, Л. И. Иовлева. — М.: СканРус, 2005. — V. 3: Живопись первой половины XIX века. — pp. 310-311. — ISBN 5-93221-081-8.
- ^ Федотов Павел Андреевич — Сватовство майора, 1848 (HTML). Государственная Третьяковская галерея — www.tretyakovgallery.ru. Дата обращения: 8 June 2021. Archive: 28 October 2020.
- ^ a b c Леонтьева Г. К. (1962, p. 36)
- ^ Леонтьева Г. К. (1985, pp. 13, 16–17)
- ^ Бенуа А. Н. (1995, p. 210)
- ^ Леонтьева Г. К. (1962, p. 38)
- ^ Сарабьянов Д. В. (1990, p. 54)
- ^ Государственный Русский музей — каталог собрания / Г. Н. Голдовский. — СПб.: Palace Editions, 2007. — V. 3: Живопись первой половины XIX века (К—Я). — P. 178. — ISBN 978-5-93332-263-4.
- ^ Государственный Русский музей — Живопись, XVIII — начало XX века (каталог). — Л.: Аврора и Искусство, 1980. — pp. 328-329.
- ^ Федотов П. А. — Сватовство майора, около 1851 (HTML). Виртуальный Русский музей — rusmuseumvrm.ru. Дата обращения: 8 June 2021. Archive: 22 April 2021.
- ^ Алленов М. М. (2000, p. 23)
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