Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 66:
Christ entering Jerusalem
From Festival tier of an iconostasis
Middle of 16th century, Novgorod
NMI 293

Wood: Linden (Tilia sp.), egg tempera
on canvas. Panel made of four boards;
back provided with metal reinforcement.

PROVENANCE: Vilhelm Assarsson (”Nov -
gorod, second half of 15th century”);
Anders Wiberg; Gift of A. Wiberg 1965
EXHIBITIONS: Gothenburg 1970, no 10; Helsinki:
1970, no 10, Stockholm 1973, no 63;
Stockholm 1988, no 17
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Assarssons samling (9:4);
NM annual report 1965, p 17; Reuterswärd
1973, pp 72–73; Abel 1978:1, fig. 12;
Abel 1981, pp 256; Bjurström 1984, p 197;
Abel 1998, pp 9, 52,53

CONSERVATION: Restored prior to entering
NM: retouches mainly along joints and
borders, gilding on background removed;
nail holes from metal cover on halo and
borders retouched; cinnabar border lines
repainted; panel thinned and reinforced
with wood; NM 1966: reinforcement
removed, panel glued and provided with
light metal braces, back varnished, cleaned,
retouched. Minor cracks in joints with
cracking going through the paint layers;
ground and paint layer losses along the
edges

Compared with an icon of the same
subject in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow,
iconography, painting technique,
artistic expression and dimentions, so
closely relate to the Nationalmuseum
icon that they probably came from the
same workshop or even from the same
hand (no GTG 20700).1 The Moscow
icon is part of a series of fifteen icons,
all of which were included in the Festival
tier of the iconostasis in the
Uspensky Cathedral in Tikhvin but
which were probably from a Novgorod
workshop.2
1 Photograph in the Nationalmuseum
documentary archives.
2 Antonova 1963, vol. 2, p 227.