Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 88:
Praise the Lord
Late 16th-early 17th century, Moscow
NMI 245

Wood: Pine (Pinus sp.), egg tempera
on canvas, gilded metal (19th century)
on borders. Central part put into new
panel made of single board with two
splines inlaid from opposite sides
(lower one lost).

Inscriptions a t.: A) Paper labels with
hand-written text in brown ink in
Cyrillic letters: 1. [ ...] / 175 r[ubley]
TSE[NA] (price 175 rubles); 2. N° 73 /
Khvalite Gospoda /[..] 614; B) Handwritten
in red paint in Cyrillic letters:
150 r[ubley]

PROVENANCE: Kharitonenko1; Antiquariat
no 4614 (”Nordische Schule 16. Jahrh.”);
Olof Aschberg 1935; Gift of O. Aschberg
1952
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1956, pp 304, 316;
Schiemenz 1999, pp 193–195, 200, 306
CONSERVATION: Restored prior to entering
NM: retouches on figures in upper part
and along lower edge probably when put
into new panel; inner aureole around figure
of Christ repainted; NM 1959: blisters consolidated
along vertical crack (B. Titov);
NM 1967: metal cover and painting cleaned,
retouching, varnishing. Lower part of
surface abraded; paint layer losses along
longitudinal crack; panel warped

This composition is an illustration of
Psalm 148, which begins “Praise ye the
Lord”. The Russian name for this iconography
is “Khvalite Gospoda s nebes”,
i.e. the opening verse of the psalm in
Russian. This motif forms the subject
of a study by G.P Schiemenz.2
1 For information aboutKharitonenko see cat.no 53.
2 Schiemenz 1999.
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