Портрет Василия Щеголенка

1879

Dating: Exact year
Held at: State Russian Museum
Medium: painting
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: Public domain (WikiArt label)License details

Ilya Repin. Портрет Василия Щеголенка. Image source: WikiArt. Source rights label: Public domain. https://www.wikiart.org/en/ilya-repin/portrait-of-folk-story-teller-v-p-schegolenkov-1879. Collected under the user's explicit WikiArt source approval of 6 October 2026; this approval is separate from the source's rights assertion. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. Exact 1879 oil portrait Ж-4085: seated elderly storyteller with long split white beard, dark buttoned coat, pale carved chair arms, right hand holding patterned cloth, facial wrinkles and lower-right autograph agree. Preserve the source Щеголенков spelling versus native Щеголенок and its darker warmer tones without catalogue edits.

Collection: State Russian Museum

Location checked Sep 13, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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