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Icon “Christ the Pantocrator”

ID:
493
Inventory number:
Ж-492 КН-43004
Type:
Paintings
Material:
board
Techniques:
levkas, oil, iconography
Dimensions:
25.5x33 cm
Date of creation:
19th c.
Preservation:
Potholes, loss of paint, scratches, nail marks and nails. Paint darkened, dirty.
Location:
unknown
Provenance:
Transferred by Demianenko V.H. Mariupol city, Izmailivska st., 21. Act No. 43 dated 04/30/1991.
Date of record to the inventory book:
16.05.1991
Item description from the inventory book:
The image is half-length, frontal. The Savior blesses with two fingers with his right hand, and holds the open Gospel with his left. Himation (cloak) is black with greenish highlights. The chiton is red, the folds are painted with yellow and dark paint. The Gospel is open, on a white sheet of paper there is the text: “I will give rest to those who come to me, all who are weary and burdened. Take it.” The cut of the book is orange. The face is painted with dark brown paint over a light brown tone. The outline of the halo is outlined in red, the crosshairs and the letters “woh” are outlined in black. The background is imitation gold (silver-plated and painted yellow). The margins are brown with a thinner dark stripe along the edge. The inscription on the background in black paint: ІС ХС // VSED[erzhitel]. Board with mortise end key. On the back and side cuts there is text and signs. The inscriptions are probably from different periods. You can read: “To Spiridon... gilded 1/1(?)” Rewrite... price is rupees - the rest is illegible.