Exhibited 19th C Russian Icon Saint Matthew Half Length- Lot 194, Auction 7/1/2019
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Exhibited 19th C Russian Icon Saint Matthew Half Length- Lot 194, Auction 7/1/2019

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Russia, ca. 19th century CE. A half-length depiction of Saint Matthew the evangelist and apostle, in egg tempera and gold leaf on a wooden roundel with a carved integral ‘frame’. Saint Matthew, depicted as an elderly sage with a white beard donning spring pink and autumnal orange robes, holds his open gospel, his blue eyes looking upward as if he has been interrupted from his writing process or is engaged in deep thought. Size: 12.5″ in diameter (31.8 cm)

Although we can only see Matthew

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