Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 90:
The Archangel Michael and Saint Flor and Saint Lavr
End of 16th-first half of 17th century
NMI 260

Wood: Linden (Tilia sp.), egg tempera
on canvas. Panel made of single board
with one spline inlaid from one side.

Inscriptions a t.: A) Paper label with
printed and hand-written text in ink
and pencil in Cyrillic letters: 75
r[ubley] / MOSGOSTORG / Antikvarno-
Khudozhestvennyi Otdel
(Department of Antiquarian Art)) /
4565 no S / Flor i Lavr / 16 v[ek] (Flor
and Lavr /16th century) / Sever-novgorodskii
(North Novgorodian) / 24 1/2 x
19 3/4 / b[ez] okl[ada] (without cover) /
sm. k-s–2325. ; B) Written on the
panel: 1. Inscribed text: [...] 1404 ; 2.
Hand-written in green paint in Cyrillic
letters: D T ; C) Ink stamp of the
Soviet State Export Committee

PROVENANCE: Antiquariat no 4565 (”Novgoroder
Schule, Norden, 16. Jahrh.”); Olof
Aschberg 1935; Gift of O. Aschberg 1952
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1956, p 289
CONSERVATION: Restored prior to entering
NM: longitudinal crack through panel, to
left of centre, repaired with two double
dovetails on the reverse, partly repainted in
19th century; retouches, especially on lower
border. Gold abraded.

For iconography, see cat. no 93
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