Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 59:
The Metropolitan Peter
From a Deesis tier of an iconostasis
Second quarter of 16th century, Central Russia
NMI 66

Wood: Linden (Tilia sp.), egg tempera.
Panel made of three boards with two
splines inlaid from opposite sides;
lower border replaced; back painted
black.

Inscriptions a t.: Ink stamp of the
Soviet State Export Committee

PROVENANCE: Olof Aschberg;
Gift of O.Aschberg 1933
EXHIBITIONS: Stockholm 1988, no 11
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1933, no 66;
Kjellin 1956, p 291
CONSERVATION: Restored prior to entering
NM: painting cleaned and partly reconstructed;
panel planed and new wood inserted,
joined together with six dovetails;
lower border replaced; NM 1949: Conservation
for flaking and blistering. Cracks
in joints; lower part of icon repainted with
artificial craquelure; the face is in a rela tive -
ly good state of preservation; lower part
of panel worm-eaten; each board slightly
warped
The Metropolitan Peter of “Kiev and
All Russia”, died in Moscow in 1326
as the first incumbent of that office in
the city. He is often depicted together
with the three Moscow Metropolitans
Alexiy, Iona and Philip. This icon
be longed to the Deesis tier of an iconostasis
in which the corresponding
image on the left side of the iconostasis
probably represented one of these
three. The colouring of this icon, with
the dominant elements of yellow and
brown, and the elongated figure, make
it typical of Central Russia.
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