Girl with a doll Vasily Tropinin (1776-1857)

Description of Vasily Tropinin’s painting "The Girl with the Doll".

Tropinin is one of those artists whose work was influenced by the trends of such a movement as sentimentalism. This trend suggested that works should reflect the cult of nature and sincere emotions and human feelings. The artist was inspired by nature and believed that the real muse is nature, which can teach people to look at things with different eyes. The artist was always attracted by genuine feelings and a pure soul, so more and more often the heroes of his paintings were children. It is in children that the artist saw the source of inspiration and creation of beauty.

Tropinin saw all this beauty in children, depicting them with birds, various toys and musical instruments. And one of these warm and soulful paintings is "Girl with a Doll," which conveys to the viewer a cozy environment and a child in the hands of a toy. The artist intentionally uses this technique and draws the viewer’s attention away from the child’s character, creating a generalized image of children. The famous Russian artist Tropinin depicted a child enjoying the moment and the joy of playing with a doll. Looking at this picture, a smile appears on the face because of how warm, lively and radiant this work is. The viewer can enjoy the beautiful and sweet scene during which the character of the child is revealed.

In the painting, the artist shows a beautiful little girl with a doll in her hands, and the other toys of the beautiful little girl can be seen in the background. Warmth and homeliness is the goal that the artist sought to achieve and very successfully.