Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 136:
The Prophet Zacharias-The Transfiguration
Part of Prophet/Festival tiers of an iconostasis, cat. nos 130-145
[NMI 20-35]
Late 17th century, Onega district, region of Novgorod, Kargopol (?)
NMI 26
Wood: Poplar (Populus sp.).
Two splines inlaid from opposite sides.
Inscriptions a t.: Two horizontal lines
in white paint with two black lines
over them.
EXHIBITIONS: Stockholm 1988, no 31
CONSERVATION: Crack right through the
upper half of the icon, to the right of
centre; minor losses of canvas, ground and
paint layers along the lower edge;
scattered coarser coloured wax insertions
on background and borders; uneven yellowish varnish.
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