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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Having studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, Harlamoff won a scholarship in 1868 for his painting The Return of the Prodigal Son. This enabled him to go to Paris where he remained, working with a great painter and teacher at the École de Beaux Arts, Léon Bonnat. He was one of the great portraitists of his day and he is best remembered for his informal portraits of young peasant girls, as shown in this full-length figure portrayal, chosen for their beauty and innocence. The Sisters was a recurrent theme in his work showing usually the elder looking after the youngest, or in this particular case the elder sister combing the youngest's hair. Harlamoff, whose choice of natural colours and contrasts of cool and warmer tones gained him recognition at his time, has treated the subject matter here with great sensitivity. | Subjects: | figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Charlamoff, Alexej Alexejewitsch (Russian painter, 1842-after 1900) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8613... | Go to resource |
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