2-708-712 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'An Aristocrat Takes Breakfast', or 'Silk on His Stomach and Nothing Inside', 1849-1850, (1965). A young man in a silk dressing gown hurries to cover a meagre slice of bread with a book, as a visitor draws back the curtain of his bedsitting-room. Scattered playbills are evidence of his love of the arts. Painting, also known as 'The Aristocrat’s Breakfast', 'False shame', and 'An Unwelcome Visitor', in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. From "Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]