The artist is Argunov
The assumptions found in the literature that the portrait depicts Peter Stepanovich or Grigory Petrovich Miloradovichi, do not find confirmation. The traditional attribution of portraits as the couple of the Miloradovichi was left.
More paired portraits of spouses, representing a certain compositional challenge for the artist, double portraits, when individual images of her husband and wives were built on compositional and coloristic symmetry. In addition to external, personal, social features of models, artists strive to convey the nature of their relationship. However, this character is not unique to this family, but quite normative, and includes universal components: spiritual kinship, affection, mutual understanding, tenderness, community of fate. As a rule, portraits of the XVIII century give their feelings a hint, shadow, reporting through the roll call of poses, gestures, views. Portraits of the ladies were often located on the right hand from the paired image of men, in accordance with this a composition was built: displacements of figures, turns, gestures echoed, as in a mirror reflection. Single portraits were written with such compositional calculation that a portrait of the spouse could appear nearby, they were complemented by portraits of children. Lyubov Shakirova. Family album of the Russian Museum // Portrait of Family. SPb, 2014. With. 6.
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