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Lot 779
  • 779

Transfiguration on Mount Thabor, Northern Russia, circa 1500

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • tempera on panel
  • 47 by 33cm, 18 1/2 by 13in.

Provenance

De Wijenburgh, Echteld, The Netherlands
Private Collection, The Netherlands

Literature

B. Velthuis, De Zoon: Christus op Ikonen, De Wijenburgh, Echteld, 1980, p. 67 no. 59.
S. Morsink, Collecting Old Icons, Russian and Greek Icons, 15th - 19th century, p. 36, cat. no. 1.

Condition

The background and border stripped down to the levkas, some repainting and retouching throughout the icon especially to the upper part of the body and to the face of Christ, the blue halo, the red mantle of St John and the upper part of the brown mantle of St Peter.
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