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Icon "Jesus Christ"

Icon "Jesus Christ"

Inv. #
Ж-1116
Origin
Sloboda Ukraine region
Category
Icons
Dimensions
35.3 × 31.5 × 4.8 cm
Materials
Techniques

Description

The icon shows a half-length image of Jesus Christ, in a three-quarter turn to the left, with long dark-blond hair, a small beard and mustache; around his head is a faint glow.

Christ wears a dark-green chiton and himation; his right hand is raised in a gesture of blessing, and in his left he holds a branch. The background of the icon is dark brown; in the upper corners are the inscriptions "IIS" (left) and "KHRS" (right).

The icon panel is reinforced with one inset horizontal batten.

The icon was made in 1890 and set into a wooden frame imitating an icon case. It belonged to a peasant woman of the village of Parkhomivka, Bohodukhiv district, Kharkiv province. It was donated to the museum by M. O. Zavhorodnia during an expedition in 1962.