Like most students of the most famous Russian realist painter, Ilya Repin, Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya was a passionate portraitist. She herself painted many acclaimed images of Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov, and Dmitry Kardovsky. Based on a portrait of the artist’s daughter, Little Woman is tinged with retrospectivism. The ten-year-old model peers inquisitively at her own reflection in an old mirror. The girl is depicted in the sunlit environment of a mid-19th-century manor house, surrounded by various elegant objects—silent witnesses of the past.
和俄国著名现实主义画家伊利亚-列宾（Ilya Repin）的大多数学生一样，奥尔加-德拉-沃斯-卡多夫斯卡娅（Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya）是一位充满热情的肖像画画家。她为安娜-阿赫玛托娃(Anna Akhmatova)、尼古拉-古米里约夫(Nikolay Gumilyov)和德米特里-卡多夫斯基(Dmitry Kardovsky)创作了许多备受赞誉的作品。《小女人》以艺术家女儿的一幅肖像画为基础，带有一丝回顾主义色彩。10岁的小模特好奇地凝视着自己在一面旧镜子里的倒影。女孩身处一座19世纪中期的庄园里，阳光明媚，周围环绕著各种优雅的物品——是过去的无声见证。
For many Russians living in the early 20th century, this world was associated with the Ivan Turgenev period. It was perceived as an embodiment of a lost beauty, harmony, and humanity, subtly expressed in Andrei Bely’s Gold in Azure cycle of poems and the prose of Ivan Bunin. As in the works of the other Neo-Romantic artists of St. Petersburg, Little Woman whimsically intertwines the past and the present, admiration for the charm of youth, elegiac sorrow at the swift passage of time, and reflections on the continuity of the generations.
对于许多生活在二十世纪初的俄罗斯人来说，这个世界与屠格涅夫时期紧密联系在一起。它被认为是一种失落的美、和谐和人性的化身，在安德烈-贝利的《天蓝色的黄金》系列诗歌和伊万-布宁的散文中得到了微妙的表达。与圣彼得堡其他新浪漫主义艺术家的作品一样，《小女人》奇妙地将过去与现在、对青春魅力的赞美、对时光流逝的悲叹、对世代延续的思考交织在一起。
We present today's masterpiece thanks to the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. :)
感谢俄罗斯国家博物馆与我们分享今天的这幅杰作。:)
