Description of the attraction
Museum of V. A. Tropinin and Moscow artists of his time is located in Zamoskvorechye, in Shchetininsky lane. The F. E. Vishnevsky in 1969.
The museum building is a restored merchant estate of the Petukhovs, located between Bolshaya Ordynka and Bolshaya Polyanka. The manor was built at the beginning of the 19th century. The complex of manor buildings includes a wooden wing built in 1883, which has survived to this day. In the fires of 1812, the estate was badly damaged and was rebuilt. The newly built stone house had a wooden mezzanine and an outbuilding. The entrance to the building was designed in the form of a portico, which is its architectural feature. A cast iron staircase from the middle of the 19th century has been preserved inside the house.
The building has always been in private hands. A descendant of the Petukhovs - polar explorer Nikolai Petukhov - donated the building to F. E. Vishnevsky. Vishnevsky, along with the collection he collected, donated the house to the museum. Vishnevsky's collection consisted of about 250 works of art. The wooden house, which is part of the manor complex, decorated with a carved cornice, is still in the possession of the descendants of the collector. The house is a monument of cultural history.
The exposition of the museum is dedicated to Russian art of the first half of the 19th century. The museum opened in 2011 after a nine-year renovation of the old building. Over the years, more than two hundred paintings and objects included in the exhibition have been restored. The grand opening took place on March 18 and was timed to coincide with the birthday of V. A. Tropinin.
The backbone of the exposition is made up of the works of Tropinin himself. The exhibition also contains paintings by Moscow artists of the late 18th - first half of the 19th century: Ivan Vishnyakov, Ivan Argunov, Alexei Antropov, Dmitry Levitsky, Fyodor Rokotov, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Alexander Bryullov and Orest Kiprensky. Over the 40 years of the museum's existence, its collection has increased almost tenfold.
The museum exhibits many items of decorative and applied art. These are porcelain, bronze items, glass, beaded embroidery and much more.
