Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 63:
The Transfiguration
Second quarter to middle of 16th century, Moscow
NMI 243

Wood: Pine (Pinus sp.), egg tempera,
gilded metal frame (17th century).
Panel made of single board with two
splines inlaid across the panel; back
painted black.

Inscriptions a t.: A) Paper labels with
hand-written text in ink in Cyrillic letters:
1. GIM / 4060 / IKONOGRAF[...];
2. Novg[orod] XVI / c / 9289 / [...]; 3. N
4060 G.I.M. / Kratkoje opisanie (breif
description) / Otdel Vtoroy (avdelning
två) / N 58270 no. 39; 4. Gosudarstvennaya
/ Tretyakovskaya / Galereya / no.
427; B) Hand-written in red paint in
Cyrillic letters: 12854 GTG

PROVENANCE: State Historical Museum
(GIM) no 4060; Tretyakov Gallery (GTG)
no 427; Antiquariat 1934 c/9289 (”Nov -
gorod Schule, Anfang 16. Jahrh.”); Olof
Aschberg 1935; Gift of O. Aschberg 1952
EXHIBITIONS: Gothenburg 1970, no 18;
Helsinki 1970, no 18
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1956, pp 188, 201
CONSERVATION: Restored prior to entering
NM: crack through panel on right mend -
ed; two horizontal damages to paint layers
in middle of picture repaired; scattered
retouches with artificial craquelure. Cracking
with minor paint losses; nail holes from
metal ornament on side edges of picture
area; gold on background and on Christ
abraded; yellowish varnish; borders cover -
ed with old metal possibly taken from
another icon
The upper part of this icon has details -
e.g. the round mandorla with the polygonal
radiance and the bowed figures
of Moses and Elijah – which are reminiscent
of an icon depicting this motif
in a church in the Moscow Kremlin,
dated to the 1490s, now in the Moscow
Kremlin Museum (inv. no 2023 sob).1
This icon was probably included in
the Festival tier of an iconostasis.

Smirnova 1989, fig. 121