LOT 47
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Lot 47
AN INTERESTING PRESENTATION RUSSIAN ICON, SIGNED AND DATED 1790. At top center two finely painted angels hold aloft the Holy Napkin and below in a landscape a princely saint (at left) and a monastic female saint at right. The verso originally gessoed and painted overall in red and with ornate gilt border and at the center still remaining is an ornate gilt cartouche with inscribed Slavonic panel mostly intact, "In the year 1790, 4th day of March. This holy image was painted for the orphanage in the city of Rybnoye....at the request of the peasant Guriy Vasiliev, painted in Moscow by the icon painter Ivan Kuritsyn.” The borders and background of the front of the icon cleaned down to the gesso. 16 inches x 13.75 inches (40.5 x 35 cm).
Estimate:
$1,000 - 1,500
€ 700 - 1,050
The city of Rybnoye is situated southwest of Moscow on the Vozha River in the Ryazan Oblast. It was first mentioned in 1597 as a settlement of Rybnino.
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