Egg tempera and gesso on wood panel.  The painting probably 18th century. Overlaid with gilded silver repoussé cover (basma) with Cyrillic assayer's mark and date D.T./1837 for Dmitri Ilyich Tverskoi, illegible maker's mark, and St. Petersburg town mark, 84 standard. 27 x 23 cm (10 5/8 x 9 1/8 in.)