NATIVITY OF THE MOTHER OF GOD
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
This miniature icon depicts the Nativity of the Mother of God. Her mother St. Anne is shown half lying on a bed beneath a red coverlet, being tended by a maidservant. A midwife seated at the foot of the bed has just bathed the newborn infant from a basin on the ground beside her and holds her, now swaddled, in her lap. Her father, St. Joachim, looks on from his seat at a table in the upper right. Three buildings occupy the background. The icon is ornamented throughout with chrysography and is framed by a red filenka.
- Object name:
- NATIVITY OF THE MOTHER OF GOD
- Made from:
- Tempera on wood
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- 18th c.
- Size:
- 5.7 × 4.8 cm (2 1/4 × 1 7/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 54.71
- Class:
- ICON
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTION; LABEL on recto: S. ANNA; S. IOAKIM; MR FU (above the heads of St. Anna, St. Joachim, the Mother of God) on verso: label fragment with illegible inscription in red ink; 67529 R . . . (in white ink)
- Credit line:
- Gift of Madame Augusto Rosso, 1966