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Oil portrait of a mustached man in a brown tunic turning his head, set against a red and blue map with globe lines.

Joseph Stalin

A painted half-length portrait of a man with dark swept-back hair and a thick mustache, wearing a brown buttoned tunic with a turned-down collar. He turns his head to the side against a red and blue map of a globe with meridian lines. The oil painting uses flat, saturated color fields and loose brushwork, with a signature in the lower left corner.

Artist
Samuel Johnson Woolf
Date
1937
Medium
Oil on canvas
Source
Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery)
Size
3394 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1937).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery

Español: Joseph Stalin

Retrato pintado de medio cuerpo de un hombre de cabello oscuro peinado hacia atrás y bigote espeso, con una túnica marrón abotonada y cuello vuelto. Gira la cabeza hacia un lado frente a un mapa rojo y azul de un globo con líneas de meridianos. La pintura al óleo usa campos de color planos y saturados con pinceladas sueltas, y una firma aparece en la esquina inferior izquierda.

Português: Joseph Stalin

Retrato pintado de meio corpo de um homem de cabelo escuro penteado para trás e bigode espesso, vestindo uma túnica marrom abotoada com gola virada. Ele vira a cabeça para o lado diante de um mapa vermelho e azul de um globo com linhas de meridianos. A pintura a óleo usa áreas de cor chapadas e saturadas com pinceladas soltas, e há uma assinatura no canto inferior esquerdo.

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