1930.48: Virgin and Child

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1930.48

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Virgin and Child

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Our Lady of the Sigh

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

icon

Date

1775 - 1800

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Russia, Moscow

Culture

Russian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/229223

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Tempera on panel covered with silver gilt with seed pearls and rhinestones

Dimensions

30.48 x 26.99 x 3.81 cm (12 x 10 5/8 x 1 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• manufacturer's mark: stamped: 1780 over C dot b - Stepan Belkin 1778 - 1788
  #2091 from Postnikova-Losseva, M.M., Platonova, N.G., Ulianova, B.L. "L'Orfèverie et la Bijouterie au XV-XX ss." Moscow: Edition "NAUKA" , 1983
• manufacturer's mark: stamped: A dot O over B in trefoil stamp - assayer's mark 1777-1789
  #2135 from Postnikova-Losseva, M.M., Platonova, N.G., Ulianova, B.L. "L'Orfèverie et la Bijouterie au XV-XX ss." Moscow: Edition "NAUKA" , 1983

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Philip M. Lydig, Purchased in Russia, 1917, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1930.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Philip M. Lydig

Accession Year

1930

Object Number

1930.48

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Figures of Madonna and Child completely encased in a frame of silver gilt engraved with raised halos. Madonna wears robe of red and blue tinsel lavishly decorated with pearls and rhinestones.

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