Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 32:
Saint Nicholas of Myra
19th century, Greece
NMI 180

Wood: Linden (Tilia sp.), oil. Panel
made of single board with two super-
imposed splines.

PROVENANCE: Olof Aschberg;
Gift of O.Aschberg 1933
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1933, no 180;
Kjellin 1956, p 274
CONSERVATION: Restored prior to entering
NM: cleaned; right hand repainted; crack
through panel, left of centre, mended a t.
with screwed-on metal plate; inpaintings.
Losses of paint layer and ground along the
crack and borders; yellowish varnish

The saint is shown seated on an
epis copal throne with Christ and the
Mother of God half-length top left and
top right respectively. The saint’s right
hand has been repainted to change the
gesture of benediction from two fin -
gers to one only.This may possibly have
been done under Coptic or Ethiopian
influence.
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