Lot Essay
This portrait is similar to 'In the Sunlilght. Portrait of Nadezhda Repina', where the artist's daughter sits under an open umbrella, and about which the artist wrote that it was painted in the last week of July 1900 at Zdravnevo. See Grigory Sternin et al, Ilya Repin: Pinting, Graphic Arts, (Leningrad, 1985), no.266.