Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 44:
The Apostle Peter
From a Deesis tier of an iconostasis
Ca 1500, Novgorod
NMI 267

Wood: Linden (Tilia sp.), egg tempera
on canvas. Panel made of single board
with two splines inlaid from one side
(both replaced); back painted brown.

Inscriptions a t.: Paper label: 1.With
printed and hand-written text in red
ink: Torgsin / Nº 1634 / [...]; 2.Written
with black pencil in Cyrillic letters:
175 r[ubley]

PROVENANCE: Antiquariat no 1634 (”Novgoroder
Schule, Norden, Erste Hälfte des
16. Jahrh.”); Olof Aschberg 1935; Gift of
O.Aschberg 1952
EXHIBITIONS: Stockholm 1988, no 4
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1956, pp 155, 158;
Felicetti 1972, p 146; Abel 1978:1, fig. 2;
Smirnova 1982, p 359
CONSERVATION: Restored prior to entering
NM: cleaned and retouched; NM 1954: the
cracked panel repaired and rejointed; new
splines; back impregnated; 1968: cleaned,
retouched and varnished. Top edge of
panel cracked; ground and paint layer losses
along the borders; surface abraded;
panel warped

Comparison should be made with
two possibly slightly older, Novgorod
icons in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
(inv. no 20523)1 and in the Russian
Museum, St Petersburg (inv.no 2888)2.
In these panels the apostles are how
ever carrying fan-shaped scrolls.
All of these have had their place in
the Deesis tier of an iconostasis.

1 Smirnova 1982, pp 253, 458.
2 Leningrad 1974, fig. 42.
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