Beaucoup d'hommes - portraits of men

Tête d'un africain, by Paul-Jean Flandrin, 1830.

Thomas Law Hodges at the age of 18, by Sir William Beechey, 1794.

The marquis de Saint-Paul, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, circa 1760.

Henri Cartier-Bresson, by George Platt Lynes, 1935.

Nikolai Petrovich Novosiltsev, by (after?) Vladimir Borovikovsky, circa 1807.

John Singer Sargent, by Giovanni Boldini, circa 1884.

Mr. Lewis as the Marquis in "The Midnight Hour", by Sir Martin Archer Shee, before 1792.

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1597.

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Gymnast Viktor Lisicki, by Dmitry Zhilinsky, 1984.

Jeune homme en redingote, miniature, French School, circa 1840.

Louis-Charles-Edmé de La Châtre, comte de Nançay (dit le marquis de La Châtre), by Nicolas de Largillière, circa 1710.

Ernest Henry Schelling, by John Singer Sargent, 1912.

Artist Nikolai Dmitrievich Kuznetsov, by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, 1884 and 1914.

Portrait d'homme en buste à la veste bleue, by Ferdinand Machera, circa 1800-10.

(The actual size of this minia-
ture is 2 1/8 inches by 1 5/8.)

Portrait of a Boy in a Top Hat with Flies, by John Opie, circa 1800.

Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer, oil on copper, by Peter Paul Rubens 1597.

Unknown Young Nobleman, by Jacob Ferdinand Voet, circa 1670-75.

Four Studies of a Male Head, by Peter Paul Rubens, circa 1617-19.

Unknown, circa late 19th century-early 20th century. (Collection Ralf de Jonge.)

Portrait of a Young Man with a Violin, possibly Pierre Rode, by Jacques-Antoine Vallin, 1808.

Jacopo Boncompagni, by Scipione Pulzone, called Il Gaetano, 1574.

Portrait allégorique d'homme en Bacchus (once identified as the Régent, Philippe II, duc d'Orléans), by Nicolas de Largillière, circa 1680-85.

 Artist Miroslav Kraljević, by Vladimir Becić, 1908.

Steve Wengryn, by Vulcan Studio, circa late 1950s.

Portrait de jeune homme barbu dit l'Albinos, by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, circa last quarter of the 19th century.

Sir Graham Moore, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, circa 1792.

Two (plus) paintings by Dmitri Zhilinksy

Boy and Mountains, tempera on panel, 1972.  I've loved this painting since I first saw a reproduction of it, years ago.

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I really wish I could see it larger/better image of this remarkable painting....

Dmitri Dmitriev Zhilinksy (25 May 25 1927, Volnovka - ), Russian painter.  Born in the village of Volkovka near Sochi on the Black Sea,  he studied at the Institute of Research and Decorative Arts in Moscow from 1944 to 1946, and then until 1951 at the Surikov Art Institute under Nikolai Chernyshov, Semyon Chuikov and Pavel Korin.  Exhibiting from 1954, Zhilinsky belonged to the Union of Artists of the Soviet Union and sought to develop a Socialist Realism which incorporated influences from Italian Neorealism. Honored Artist of the RSFSR and corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.  Husband of sculptor Nina Zhilinskaya (1926 - 1995).

Adam and Eve, tempera on panel, 1979.

Adam and Eve, tempera on panel, 1980-86.  By the dates, it appears the painter has revisited the above painting, but I feel that, though the
 flanking figures are in some ways more congenial here, the central painting-within-a-painting isn't nearly as successful.