File:N.Gogol by F.Moller (1840, Tretyakov gallery).jpg

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Summary

Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller: Portrait of Nikolai Gogol

Artist



Alternative names	Русский: Фёдор Антонович Моллер Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller
Description	Russian painter, land owner and military personnel son of Anton Vasilievich Moller (Berend Otto von Möller, 1764–1848 ), a Russian admiral, the Marine Minister of Russia (1828–1836)
Date of birth/death	11 June 1812 (30 May 1812 in Julian calendar)	2 August 1874 (21 July 1874 in Julian calendar)
Location of birth/death	Kronstadt	Saint Petersburg
Work period	between 1832 and 1874 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1874-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Saint Petersburg, Italy, Moscow
Authority file	: Q4300491 VIAF: 45227373 ISNI: 0000000066824249 ULAN: 500001514 LCCN: nr2002037701 GND: 124127800 WorldCat

Title

Portrait of Nikolai Gogol

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

English: The portrait exhibited in Tretyakov Gallery is author’s replica of the original portrait painted for the mother of Nikolai Gogol in 1841 in Rome.
The original portrait was kept in Vasilievka, Gogol’s estate, then it was at the house of A.V. Gogol, the sister of the writer. In 1919 S.N. Bykova, the grand-nephew of N. Gogol, transferred the original portrait to the collection of Poltava Museum of Local History, where the portrait was housed till 1941. It was lost during the German occupation of Ukraine.

Русский: Картина, находящаяся в Третьяковской галерее, является авторским повторением портрета, написанного для матери писателя, в 1841 году, в Риме.
Оригинальный портрет находился в усадьбе Н.В. Гоголя «Васильевка», затем – у сестры писателя А.В. Гоголь, в Полтаве. В 1919 С.Н. Быкова, внучатая племянница Николая Гоголя, передала портрет в Полтавский историко-краеведческий музей, где он находился до 1941 года. Во время Великой Отечественной войны картина была утеряна.

Depicted people

Nikolai Gogol

Date

early 1840s

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 59 cm (23.2 in); width: 47 cm (18.5 in)

Collection

Tretyakov Gallery

	Native name	Russian: Государственная Третьяковская галерея
	Location	Moscow, Russia
	Coordinates	55° 44′ 29″ N, 37° 37′ 15.11″ E
	Established	1856
	Website	http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/
	Authority file	: Q183334 VIAF: 155322452 ISNI: 0000000121815303 ULAN: 500303235 LCCN: n81071245 NLA: 35214659 WorldCat

Current location

The main building of the gallery (10, Lavrushinsky Pereulok), room 14

Accession number

275

Object history

Purchased by Sergey Tretyakov, the brother of Pavel Tretyakov

Inscriptions

Signature bottom right:

Ѳ. Моллеръ [F. Moller]

References

(in Russian) (1984) Государственная Третьяковская галерея. Каталог живописи XVIII – начала ХХ века (до 1917 года), Moscow: Изобразительное искусство, no. 275

Source/Photographer

Tretyakov Gallery

Camera location	55° 44′ 06.07″ N, 37° 36′ 23.11″ E	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	55.735019; 37.606419

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930.

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Valued image

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current	03:12, 14 February 2022	1,624 × 2,048 (1,014 KB)	Алексей Скрипник	Reverted to version as of 01:58, 28 March 2018 (UTC) unknown source
	08:15, 13 August 2021	2,752 × 3,365 (1.16 MB)	Dmottl	Better resolution
	01:58, 28 March 2018	1,624 × 2,048 (1,014 KB)	Trzęsacz	same image now larger available, same source with new URL; https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/collection/portret-nikolaya-vasilevicha-gogolya/
	21:47, 25 September 2016	887 × 1,126 (271 KB)	Ekenaes	http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/collection/_show/image/_id/2839#
	19:54, 2 September 2009	338 × 415 (74 KB)	Чръный человек	Предыдущая версия несмотря на размеры неудачна, поскольку у неё неестественные цвета.
	07:45, 2 September 2009	1,217 × 1,581 (732 KB)	Чръный человек	Цветокоррекция
	08:41, 27 August 2009	1,230 × 1,600 (438 KB)	Алексей Скрипник	Larger version from http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/YuWrVXneulCoGynItJLQ6Q
	08:32, 27 August 2009	540 × 700 (40 KB)	Алексей Скрипник	larger copy from http://plumblines.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/gogol3.jpg
	21:00, 18 January 2008	262 × 335 (27 KB)	Cecil	removed border and watermark
	23:04, 29 November 2007	290 × 400 (18 KB)	Shliahov