Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat.no.5: SECOND HALF OF 17th century,
BULGARIA (?)

Wood:
Juniper (Juniperus sp.),egg tempera on canvas.
Panel made of single board with two splines
inlaid across the panel.
62.5x 41.5x 4
Inscriptions a t.: Ink stamp of the
Soviet State Export Committee
NMI 190

PROVENANCE: Olof Aschberg;
Gift of O.Aschberg 1933
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1933, no 190; Kjellin

1956, pp 277, 285; Moberg 1999, p 84

CONSERVATION:
Restored prior to entering NM: crack (20 cm approx.)
on upper right side of panel mended with metal;
cleaned and retouched. Cracks in upper and lower
right halves of panel; damage, with losses of paint
and ground, especially along the borders; abrasions
of paint layer all over surface; vertical re damage in
lower right part

The depiction of St George and the horse conspicuously
resemble an icon with this motif in the National Gallery,
Soa, dated 1667 (inv. no N 9).1

1 Brussels 1917, no 57, g.