Self -portrait

The artist is Orlovsky

Self-portrait of Orlovsky is a software work of a romantic artist. Academician of painting Orlovsky portrayed himself in the complete equipment of the Caucasian warrior (most likely Circassian), which he was never in reality. The costume corresponds to the heroic expression on the face, a tense pose with a sharp turn of the head. The theme of the East, characteristic of European romanticism, was often associated with the Caucasus in Russia (later the Caucasian theme attracted Mikhail Lermontov and other writers of the romantic direction).

Orlovsky Alexander Osipovich (1777, Warsaw-1832, St. Petersburg)-draftsman, lithograph, painter; genre, portrait painter, landscape painter, battalist, animalist.
He lived and worked in St. Petersburg (since 1802), where he was in the state of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich. Academician (1809) for the picture “Bivouac Cossacks” (timing). The author of the first Russian art lithography (1816). In the late 1810s-1820s he performed several series of lithographs dedicated to scenes from Russian folk life that enjoyed great success.