A GROUP OF THREE RUSSIAN ICONS OF THE CRUCIFIXION Second half of the 17th Century Northern Russia
Each egg tempera and gesso on canvas on wood panel. Each with a raised border kovcheg. Each slightly restored. Each 24.5 x 21.3 cm (9 5/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
PROVENANCE
Acquired in the 1930s in Moscow by the Grandfather of the present owner, a diplomat in the Italian Embassy to the Soviet Union
Thence by descent