Saint Nicholas the Miracle-Worker
  • Saint Nicholas the Miracle-Worker

    TitleSaint Nicholas the Miracle-Worker
  • Technique/ MaterialWood: Poplar, egg tempera
  • DimensionsDimensions: (h x b x dj) 98,5 x 42,5 x 3 cm
    Frame: (h x b x dj) 100 x 44 x 8 cm
  • DatingDated late 17th century
  • CategoryPaintings, Icons
  • Inventory No.NMI 43
  • AcquisitionGåva 1933 av Olof Aschberg
  • Description
    Artist/Maker
    Images and media

    Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 126:
    Saint Nicholas the Miracle-Worker
    Part of a Deesis tier of an iconostasis, cat. nos 120-127 [NMI 37-44]
    Late 17th century, region of Novgorod
    NMI 43

    Wood: Poplar (Populus sp.), right border:
    Spruce (Picea sp.) Two splines
    inlaid from the same side.

    Inscriptions a t.: Five horizontal lines
    in white

    CONSERVATION: Cleaned prior to entering
    NM; NM 1968: cracks mended, cleaning,
    varnishing. Cracks right through along the
    lower edge; right border separate piece of
    wood joined to the panel with three pro -
    ject ing wooden plugs; this part of the lower
    edge worm-eaten; insertions of ground on
    the right upper part, along the right edge
    and lower border.
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