Portrait of Ivan Grigorevich, Count Chernyshev (c. 1785): Art, History and Details

Portrait of Ivan Grigorevich, Count Chernyshev (c. 1785) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Heinrich Friedrich Füger (German, 1751–1818).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Heinrich Füger, known as the "Cosway of Vienna," was born in Germany and studied in Italy and Vienna, where he became a court painter to the imperial family. Like Cosway, Füger drew his clientele from aristocratic circles. However Füger was less flamboyant than Cosway, capable of capturing the sitter's individual character and personality.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of Ivan Grigorevich, Count Chernyshev
• Date: c. 1785
• Creator attribution: Heinrich Friedrich Füger (German, 1751–1818)
• Culture: Germany, 18th century
• Type: Portrait Miniature
• Technique: watercolor on ivory in a later gilt metal and enamel frame
• Dimensions: Diameter: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.); Diameter of frame: 13.1 cm (5 3/16 in.)
• Collection: P - German before 1800
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1942.1141

Collection credit

The Edward B. Greene Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. Portrait Miniatures ; The Edward B. Greene Collection. 1951.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.

View the collection record

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