Portrait of a Boy
Illia Repin (Ilia Efimovich Repin) Ukrainian, born Russian Empire
Not on view
Repin was born in the rural Ukrainian town of Chuhuiv (Chuguev) when it was part of the Russian Empire. He went on to become a major progressive painter. True to realist principles, Repin depicted this boy in a straightforward manner that is tender without being overly sentimental. In the early 1880s, when the picture was made, the artist painted a number of portraits of children, including relatives of his patrons and his own daughters and son. The sitter for this work, however, has not been identified.
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