Lot 440
  • 440

A Monk Saint, Russian, 17th century

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • A Sainted Monk
  • tempera, wood, oil
  • 30.8 by 26cm, 12 1/8 by 10 1/4 in.
tempera on wood

Provenance

Gift of Humanities Fund Inc., 1972

Exhibited

Century Club, New York, Russian Icons, no. 32, lent by Boris Bakhmeteff, 1941.

Catalogue Note

This is probably a fragment of an icon, re-panelled as a vrezka in the 19th century.