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The Russian Museum » The Mikhailovsky Palace » Room 8

Room 8

Portraiture was particularly popular in Russia at the end of the eighteenth century. The 1770s and 1780s were the heyday of Fyodor Rokotov (1730s–1808), one of the most delicate and refined portrait painters of this time. The Russian Museum possesses more than forty works by Rokotov. The smoky-grey, pink and soft blue tones, Rokotov’s favourites, went in perfect harmony with Rococo and early Neoclassical interiors.

Several works by sculptors working at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries display a sensual treatment of life, such as Venus (1792) by Feodosius Schedrin (1751–1825).

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