"Saint Nicholas "Prosperous""

High Resolution Images: fragments.

Russia. Around 1800.

Size: 32 x 26 cm.
Technique & Material: Monolithic board, gesso, tempera, gold, drying oil, blackening.

Description:  This icon has very rare plot. Fine aristocratic painting of the highest quality: faces, before faces, exquisite miniature painting and cutting clothes are made with gold. Iconography of this icon is canonical however joyful and carries a light baroque aesthetic (saints on the icon fields are in baroque cartouches). Paleos saints tell us that this is custom-made icon.

The state of original preservation is almost perfect. Thin croquelure gives this icon the charm of antiquity. Separately we should note the richest palette of the used paints: from mercury kroplak, gold, rare and expensive turquoise, etc.

This is collectible icon.

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Price: 3700 EUR.-

"Никола "Процветший"" 

Россия. Около 1800 год.
Размер: 32 x 26 cm.

Монолитная доска , левкас, темпера , золото , олифа.

High Resolution Images: fragments.
Цена: 3700 EUR.-