Russian Icon Painting of Jesus holding the Old Testament (ca. 1875)
7 x 8 ¾ in, oil on wood panel with silver oklad/riza (cut-out trim)
No one ever said that a secular humanist could not appreciate and collect examples of art depicting religious subjects.
Russian Icon Painting of Jesus holding the Old Testament, from a historian’s collection. This 19th-century Russian Icon still retains its original Silver Hallmarked Oklad. One hallmark reads “84” with a man wearing a “peasant headdress.” This is a Russian Kokoshnik hallmark used up to the year 1908. The other hallmark is only partially discernible and it reads as “CK3/.”