Saint Barbara
  • TitleSaint Barbara
  • Technique/ MaterialWood, egg tempera
  • DimensionsDimensions: (h x b) 30,5 x 24 cm
  • DatingDated 18th century
  • Artist/Maker Artist: Anonymous
  • CategoryPaintings, Icons
  • Inventory No.NMI 234
  • AcquisitionGåva 1933 av Olof Aschberg
  • Description
    Artist/Maker

    Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 26:
    Saint Barbara
    18th century, Greece
    NMI 234

    Wood, egg tempera.

    PROVENANCE: Olof Aschberg; Gift of
    O. Aschberg 1933; Found missing during
    stock- taking 1996
    CONSERVATION: Dahlbäck 1954, p 195
    This martyr saint, previously wrongly
    named St Cecilia, is identified by
    means of the tower depicted in the
    background.
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