Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 197:
The Mother of God of Khorsun
Second half of 18th century
NMI 128

Wood: Linden (Tilia sp.), egg tempera
on canvas. Panel made of single board
with two splines inlaid across the panel
(both replaced); back painted brown.

Inscriptions a t.: A) Paper label with
hand-written text in black ink: Nº 240;
B) In red ink: 391 / Aschberg’s signature

PROVENANCE: Olof Aschberg;
Gift of O.Aschberg 1933
EXHIBITIONS: Stockholm 1973, no 21; Stockholm
1974, no 17
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1933, no 128; Kjellin
1956, pp 231, 246; Reuterswärd 1973, p 43
Moberg 1999, p 110
CONSERVATION: Restored prior to entering
NM: painting cleaned; insertions on borders
and background; NM 1973: the back
doubled with later panel; NM 1975: laying
down of blisters, consolidation of flaking
paint layers along an old crack. Paint losses
along a crack to the right of centre; damage
to paint layers and ground along the edges;
nail holes on borders and background from
metal cover.
On the lower left border a full-length
figure of a hermit, probably Saint
Makarius of Egypt (inscription lost).
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