Our Lady of Shuya and Smolensk
Iconography: Shuiskaya-Smolenskaya icon of the Mother of God
Date: XIX century. Second half of the 19th century.
Iconographic school/art center: The Palekh iconographic school
Material: Wood, levkas, tempera, gold
Dimensions: height 118 cm, width 84 cm
A waist-length depiction of the Mother of God with the Divine Child in the arms. He sits sidewise towards the praying people putting his right feet on his right leg and raising a scroll almost to the face of the Mother of God.
Registration number ГМПИ 1668\151. ДИ-149-И. © The State Museum of Palekh Art
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