Self-portrait of Shevchenko (winter 1840/1841)

Shevchenko's self-portrait is among the first of writer and artist Taras Shevchenko's self-portraits, painted in the winter of 1840/1841. Shevchenko would go on to produce approximately thirty self-portraits in a variety of media. The 1840/1841 portrait is used on the Ukraine one hundred-hryvnia bill.

Shevchenko's friend from the Academy of Arts, F. P. Ponomarev, recalls the creation of the work:

I was Shevchenko's closest friend. In the late 1830s and early 1840s we were inseparable almost daily. He lived on Ostrov, in the 5th line, Arenst's house, and I at the Academy of Arts, where I had a workshop given to me for success in drawing and modeling. This workshop (former old church sacristy) consisted of one room with a mezzanine. On these mezzanines, my poor Taras was placed during his serious illness, which consumed our meager means. At that very time, he painted a portrait of himself wi…

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