Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 144:
The Prophet Zechariah-The Exaltation of the Cross
Part of Prophet/Festival tiers of an iconostasis, cat. nos 130-145
[NMI 20-35]
Late 17th century, Onega district, region of Novgorod, Kargopol (?)
[Mer info se NMI 20]
NMI 34
Wood. Poplar (Populus sp.).
Two splines inlaid from opposite sides
(upper one lost).
Inscriptions a t.: A) Paper label from
the North-West Railroad Company:
Volosovo (hand-written) to Petrograd.
(Volosovo is situated in the Kargopol
region); B) eight horizontal lines in
white paint
EXHIBITIONS: Nationalmuseum 1988, no 36
CONSERVATION: Losses of canvas, ground
and paint layers on lower border and lower
part of feast scene scattered insertions of
coloured wax on background and borders;
uneven yellowish varnish.
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