Valentin Serov

Портрет Льва Бакста

Первая половина 1900-х

Dating

Within this decade

Held at

State Russian Museum

Medium

drawing

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

Public domain (WikiArt label)License details

Valentin Serov. Портрет Льва Бакста. Image source: WikiArt. Source rights label: Public domain. https://www.wikiart.org/en/valentin-serov/portrait-of-leo-bakst. 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. WikiArt explicitly leaves the creation date unknown (structured year ?; no displayed Date field). Individual visual review identifies Russian Museum sheet Р-13438, dated Первая половина 1900-х (first half of the 1900s). This native object evidence establishes pre-1971 eligibility; the existing catalogue retains its coarser 1900–1909 interval and original date text. WikiArt source year fields remain null. No source year was invented and no catalogue date or unknown field was rewritten. Exact physical gouache/ink portrait Р-13438: identical oval black surround and separate curved strokes above the head, two vertical brush tests at left, asymmetric spectacles, moustache, white collar, dark bow and circular light opening, unfinished right lapel, black lower-right dab and autograph. Native date Первая половина 1900-х establishes pre-1971 scope; WikiArt remains explicitly undated. Preserve source colour differences and its closer framing: outer cardboard margins and the lower-right collection stamp lie outside the supplied source frame. Existing unknown accession/material/dimensions fields and catalogue 1900–1909 date interval remain unchanged. The supplied reproduction shows a closer view of the drawing, with outer cardboard margins and the lower-right collection stamp outside its frame. This framing is explicitly labelled; no further cropping was applied.

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