Portrait of the countess samoilovata

Description of Karl Bryullov’s painting "Portrait of Countess Samoilova".

Karl Bryullov was the son of a sculptor and showed a talent for drawing at an early age.

He was a follower of Romanticism - but unlike Western Romanticism, where harmony, beauty and a positive attitude toward the world triumph, late Russian Romanticism manifested itself with tragic intonations and a general sense of the tragedy of life.

Portrait of the countess samoilovata

Also Russian Romanticism is characterized by an interest in strong feelings and emotions that manifest themselves in spades and situations. In this case, drama in the description of unusual topics is inevitable. The artist successfully combined all these hallmarks of the genre with the classically perfect faces and plastique of his characters.

In addition to large genre works, Bryullov created a large number of portraits, both of famous fi