Description:
girl
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This touching portrait of a young girl is one of many by Alexej Alexejewitsch Harlamoff that helped him garner international recognition. The virtuoso brushwork, mastery of light, and subtle range of warm tones creates an overall effect of softness. The girl is unidentified, as most of the artist’s models were, providing less a depiction of a specific person and more an idealized image of female beauty and childish innocence. Its small scale also offers an intimate relationship between the viewer and the girl depicted conducive to contemplation.
Born in Russia, Harlamoff was first trained at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and later at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. As an extension of his training, the young artist copied works by western European artists such as Rembrandt, to whom he often has been compared. Harlamoff exhibited his paintings widely in Paris Salons, Universal Exhibitions, and in Russia. By the 1880s, he set up his own studio in Paris, where he supported himself as an artist for the remainder of his life. Never abandoning his ties to his homeland, he often signed his works, as in this case, with the westernized version of his name rather than using the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.
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