Also known as 'In Thee Rejoiceth'. The Virgin Mary sits within a circle of paradise, surrounded by saints and angels, an Orthodox church is visible in the background. Egg tempera, gold leaf and gesso on wood panel with kovcheg and a metal filigree oklad. Two insert splints on the back. 33 x 27.4 cm. (13 x 10 3/4 in.)


PROVENANCE:
Purchased by the Mother of the current owner in Russia during the 1920s; thence by descent in Family Collection.
LOT NOTES:
During the late 1920s, shortly after the Russian Revolution, two young New York society women, sisters Adelaide and Helen Hooker secretly traveled to Russia