На низком мольберте, перед которым стоит
кресло (Трощейкин всегда работает сидя)... (The portrait-painter
Troshcheykin always works sitting in an arm-chair: "The Event," Act One,
mise en scène)
Cf. "I. E. Repin paints a portrait of N. N. Evreinov," the
photograph reproduced in Evreinov's "Оригинал о портретистах" ("The
Model on Portraitists," Chapter One, "Paradoxical Self-Portraits"):
Alexey Sklyarenko 