Saint Catherine / Sviata Kateryna
ID:
4147
Updated:
28.01.2025
Name:
Saint Catherine / Sviata Kateryna
Author:
Mikhail Shibanov
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1783-1786
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, iconography
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
66x137,5 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 507, КП – 1038
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Full-length figure in front. Head slightly tilted to the left. Wavy red hair with a small crown. Left hand bent at chest holds a golden branch. Right hand slightly raised and extended with palm down. Pink tunic falls in folds on bare legs. Red maphorion lined with ermine is draped over shoulders. Under maphorion, brocade knee-length clothing is tied at waist with belt. Background is landscape with two trees. On the right is part of a wooden wheel. On the reverse – upper right on stretcher – х – 343; on canvas in black paint kh.kh.m. listed No. 18. Restoration in Rostov Research Workshops in 1977 – 1981.
Circumstances:
It was taken out of the Kherson Art Museum by representatives of the russian federation
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Details of theft
Year of the incident:
2022
Place of the incident:
The Oleksii Shovkunenko Kherson Regional Art Museum
Coordinates (Lat, Lon):
46.62979067231111, 32.609546919505945
Place of last known stay:
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Archive links
Description of the incident location
It was opened on May 27, 1978, in the former City Hall building, an architectural monument of the early 20th century. As of 2022 (before the robbery), the museum's collection included more than 13 thousand works of art and was one of the most interesting museum collections in Ukraine. It includes works of Ukrainian and foreign painting, graphics, sculpture, and decorative and applied arts. From October 31 to November 4, 2022, the Kherson Art Museum was looted by the russian occupiers, and more than 10,000 of its most valuable exhibits were stolen. The cargo was sent to Crimea, and the works (all or part of them) ended up in the Simferopol Central Museum of Tavrida. It is unknown whether everything is still there.
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