Victor Karlovich StemberRussian portrait painter, 1863-1921
Unknown Title: Gypsy?, 1890 — painting by Victor Stember
Archival photograph — the only known record of this work. From the family album of Natasha Warren.

Unknown Title: Gypsy?

1890 · unknown

Unknown Title: Gypsy? is a 1890 portrait by the Russian artist Victor Stember, known today only from an archival family photograph.

This exotic looking girl is a charcoal drawing done in 1890. Nothing else is known of it but the artists daughter Natasha wrote that her father: 'visited European countries many times, exhibiting his paintings in foreign exhibitions: in Germany, France and Italy.'  

This drawing appeared in the magazine 'Gosslar' to illustrate a story. Other drawings that appeared in the article are numbers: 230, 229, 227, 226, 178.

Do you have information about this portrait — its location, provenance, or a better photograph? Please contact the family.