Russian Art
Nikitin, I. N.
"Portrait of Napolny Cossack Leader". 1720s
Notes: Portrait of Napolny Cossack Leader
Nikitin's portraits of Peter I on his Deathbed and of a Cossack leader are exceptional early eighteenth-century paintings, for they have a vitality and dignity not unlike certain masterworks of the Spanish school from the previous century. The painter's likenesses of members of the Tsar's family generally lack the forthright presentation and immediacy conveyed so well by these two works.
