Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 47:
The Archangel Gabriel and the Apostle Paul
Part of Deesis, cat. nos 47– 48
Early 16th century, Northern district, Region of Novgorod
NMI 252

Wood: Linden (Tilia sp.), egg tempera
on canvas. Central part inlaid into new
panel made of single board with two
splines inlaid from opposite sides.

Inscriptions a t.: A) Paper labels:
1. Hand-written text in brown ink in
Cyrillic letters: Muzey farfora (Porcelain
Museum) /N 147; 2.Printed and
hand-written in black ink in Cyrillic
letters: OTD[EL] IKONOGRAFII
(Department of Icons) / GIM / 4055;
3. Printed and hand-written in black
ink in Cyrillic letters: OTD[EL] IKONOGRAFII
(Department of Icons) /
GIM / IN[VENTAR] 448 / K.I. 58270;
4. Printed and hand-written in Cyrillic
letters: GOSUDARSTVENNAYA
TRETYAKOVSKAYA GALEREYA / N
489; 5.Printed and hand-written in
pencil in Cyrillic letters: OTDEL PO
DEL.[AM] MUZEEV I OCHRANE
PAMYATN.[IKOV] ISKUSSTVA I
STARINY NAR[ODNOGO] KOMISSARIATA
PO PROSV[ESHCHENIYU]
(People’s Commissariat for
Education, Division for Museum
Affairs and Storage of Art and Antiq -
uities) / N 457 / 147; 6.Printed and
hand-written in pencil and brown ink
in Cyrillic letters: N 4055 GIM /
OTDEL PO DELAM MUZEEV I
OCHRANE PAMYATNIKOV
ISKUSSTVA I STARINY PRI
NARODNOM KOMISSARIATE PO
PROSVESHCHENIYU / avtor (artist):
Severnaya shk[ola] XV v.(Northern
school 15th century) / nazvanie (titel):
arkh[angel] Gavriil i ap[ostol] Pavel /
vladelets (owner) : A.V.Morozov
/chast[nyi] N[..] (private N [..])inv.n
5853 / 58270; 7. Hand-written in pencil:
c / 9305 / 75 /[...]; B) Painted on the
panel in red in Cyrillic letters:
12917 GTG

PROVENANCE: A.V.Morozov; Porcelain
Museum no 147; Historic Museum;
Tretya kov Gallery no 12917 and no 489;
Antiquariat c/ 9305 (”Novgoroder Schule,
Norden, 15. Jahrh.”); Olof Aschberg 1935;
Gift of O. Aschberg 1952
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1956, pp 48–49, 155
CONSERVATION: Restored prior to entering
NM: central part of painting inserted into
new panel; retouches; head of apostle re -
painted; paint layers on borders removed.
Cracks through centre of panel; heavy horizontal
cracking across picture surface; surface
severely abraded
This icon and cat. no 48 are fragments
of the same Deesis. Judging by the Tretyakov
Gallery’s inventory numbering,
we may assume that they also possessed
a third panel from this Deesis. Typical -
ly Novgorodian characteristics are the
elongated figures, the background col -
our and the thinly applied paint. The
painting is of relatively high quality.
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