Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 213:
The Mother of God of Kazan
18th century
NMI 114

Wood: Linden (Tilia sp.), egg tempera
on canvas. Panel made of single board
with two splines inlaid from opposite
sides; back painted brown.

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

PROVENANCE: Olof Aschberg;
Gift of O.Aschberg 1933
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1933, no 114; Kjellin
1956, p 243
CONSERVATION: Restored prior to entering
NM: painting cleaned; scattered insertions
of ground and inpaintings on background,
borders and on lower part of figure with
artificial craquelure. Slightly darkened varnish
The initials of the Mother of God
are to be found in two circular shapes
on the upper border. Painted on an
old panel the icon displays all the char -
acteristics of being painted in accord -
ance with Old Believer tradition.
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