Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Boris Kustodiev - Portrait of Fyodor Chaliapin - Google Art Project.jpg

Winter with Fyodor Chaliapin edit

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Original – Fyodor (1873 – 1938) with a French bulldog, in the snow. ^{^{^{Chris, if anybody complains about the edges, will you crop?}}}

Reason: One of the interesting Russian painter Boris Kustodiev's winter portraits - of a renowned Russian opera singer, Fyodor Chaliapin As our article states: Possessing a deep and expressive bass voice, he enjoyed an important international career at major opera houses and is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form..."
Articles in which this image appears: Portrait of Chaliapin (Kustodiev painting) (own article), Feodor Chaliapin, Lining (sewing), Boris Kustodiev, Fine Arts of Leningrad (Moscow, 1976), Russian Museum
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
Creator: Boris Kustodiev

Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 12:35, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Kustodiev does such delightful work with colors. – Sca (talk) 17:24, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:11, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tremonist (talk) 15:01, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – high EV. ssт✈^(discuss) 02:56, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 17:14, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Mark Miller (talk) 05:20, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Recipes for "Spaghetti Chaliapin" can be found in old cookbooks. It's a very buttery sauce incorporating lardons. Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 05:27, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Old Fyodor – or is it Feodor? – does look rather lardonic here. Sca (talk) 16:13, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Jobas (talk) 15:20, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - me thinks the little dog is a Frenchie Atsme^📞📧 16:18, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Boris Kustodiev - Portrait of Fyodor Chaliapin - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:07, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Added image to Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings as there is an article about the portrait. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:07, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]