The artist is Belsky
It was completed according to the program “Write a generated portrait of a teacher at two pupils of the first and third age in the exercise of the teachings of history and geography and present a teacher who is sitting and practicing in the interpretation of sciences of a third age. And the boy of the first age be in the arms of one hand of a teacher with an imitative and attentive face “. After the author was awarded a large gold medal, the portrait entered the IAX Museum.
The Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) has a copy from this work, previously considered the image of Timofei Aksakov with his sons, then Sergey and Nikolai Aksakov with his teacher Grigory Kartashevsky.
The definition of a character as a teacher of history and geography of Baudouin belongs. And. Nikulina. Baudouin entered the service of the Academy of Arts in October 1772. In January 1773, the Academy Council instructed him to “make a prospectus from universal history, and especially related to art”. In March, the avenue was “tested, a year later, in March 1774, Baudouin left the Academy to the“ Particular ”service. In the lists of teachers of Moscow University for the 1790s, Stepan Fedorovich Baudouin is listed. However, one cannot confidently say that this is the same character that is depicted in the picture of Mikhail Belsky.
(Svetlana Moiseeva. Belian artists. SPb, 2019. With. 66)
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