О переименовании одного портрета Ф. И. Шубина
On renaming of one of the portraits by Fedot I. Shubin

Summary/Abstract: A portrait bust, preserved in two casts: bronze (The State Russian Museum) and plaster (The State Tretyakov Gallery), holds a special place among the well-known works of Fedot Shubin (1740–1805), which left their mark in the history of Russian art. This bust has been considered as a portrait of the count P. V. Zavadovsky (1739–1812) for a long time. It has been dated back either 1770s, given the age of P. V. Zavadovsky and the period of time when he had been a favourite of Catherine the Second, or 1790s, taking into account the virtuosity of its execution. The absence of the physiognomic similarity with the portrait of P. V. Zavadovsky in painting and the discovered «Self-portrait with the sons» by the Austrian painter G.-B. Lampi the Elder, which is iconographically close to the considered bust, were the reasons to rename this work of one of the greatest portrait sculptor of the 18th century.

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