Our Lady of Tikhvin

Iconography:  Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God

Date: XIX century. Turn of the 19th – 20th centuries.

Iconographic school/art center:  The Palekh iconographic school

Icon-painter: Myznikov, Ivan Konstantinovich

Origin: Received by the museum in the 1970s from a scientific expedition around the Ivanovo region.

Material: Wood, levkas, tempera, gold

Dimensions:  height 31,3 cm, width 26,6 cm

A waist-length image of the Mother of God holding the Infant Christ on her left arm


Registration number ГМПИ 3152. ДИ-331-И. © The State Museum of Palekh Art


Bibliography:

1. Иконопись Палеха из собрания Государственного музея палехского искусства (Palekh Icon Painting. State Museum of Palekh Art ). М., 1994. С. 151. Илл. CX.

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