Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 54:
The Apostle Peter
From a Deesis tier of iconostasis
First half of 16th century, Novgorod (?)
NMI 299

Wood: Linden (Tilia sp.), egg tempera.
Original panel a t. provided with aluminium
reinforcement.

PROVENANCE: Vilhelm Assarsson (”Moscow,
beginning of 16th century”); Åke
Wiberg; Anders Wiberg; Acquired by the
Museum in 1965
EXHIBITION: Berlin 1966, no 106; Gothenburg
1970, no 5; Helsinki 1970, no 5; Stockholm
1988, no 9
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Assarssons samling (13:1);
NM annual report 1965, p 17
CONSERVATION: Restored prior to entering
NM: panel thinned and reinforced, scattered
retouches with artificial craquelure,
abrasions of background retouched,; NM
1966: panel split in four parts, cracks glued,
reinforcement replaced with horizontal
aluminium struts; later overpaintings
removed (B.Titov). Signs of cracking in
panel; damage with ground and paint layer
losses along the bottom edge; halo gold
heavily abraded
The text on the scroll, which is predominantly
intact, reads: “Peter said:
Thou art Jesus, the Son of the Living
God. On this rock [...].”1
Exhibited in Berlin 1966 as Novgorod
school, 15th century.

1"Reche Petr esi Isus syn boga zhivago na sem
ka[mene]." Cf. Matt. XVI:18
[slut]