Deesis and selected Saints
  • TitleDeesis and selected Saints
  • Technique/ MaterialWood: Fir, egg tempera
  • Dimensions(h x b x dj) 24,5 x 20,5 x 3 cm
  • DatingDated 19th century
  • Artist/Maker Artist: Anonymous
  • CategoryPaintings, Icons
  • Inventory No.NMI 287
  • AcquisitionGåva 1961 av Siri Aschberg
  • Description
    Artist/Maker
    Images and media

    Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 30:
    Deesis and selected Saints
    19th century, Greece
    NMI 287

    Wood: Fir (Abies sp.), egg tempera.
    Panel made of single board without
    splines.

    PROVENANCE: Siri Aschberg; Gift of S.
    Aschberg 1933
    CONSERVATION: Big losses of paint layer and
    ground; fire damage to lower border; darkened
    varnish
    The upper half of this icon represents
    the Deesis with Christ, the Mother
    of God and John the Baptist, its lower
    part with three saints; from left:
    St Paraskeva, St Nicholas and St Catherine.
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