Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 25:
Saint Charalampus
18th century, Greece
NMI 183

Wood: Spruce (Picea sp.), egg tempera.
Panel made of single board with two
superimposed splines.

PROVENANCE: Olof Aschberg;
Gift of O.Aschberg 1933
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1933, no 183
CONSERVATION: Restored prior to entering
NM: cracks through the middle of the icon
mended; scattered retouches. Losses of
paint layer and ground along a transverse
crack and on the borders; varnish yellowed
The enthroned bishop saint shown
holding an open book, the Greek text
of which comes from Joh. XV:17.
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