The Virgin of the Sign (Blachernitissa)

Pecherskaya Lavra [monastery] (Kiev, Russia); 1937, U.S.S.R. government facilitated sale to Joseph E. Davies [ambassador to U.S.S.R.] (Washington, DC); 1937, Joseph E. Davies gifted to University of Wisconsin-Madison; 1967, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Alumni Association of the University of Wisconsin of the City of New York. "The Joseph E. Davies Collection of Russian Paintings and Icons Presented to The University of Wisconsin." New York: Alumni Association of the University of Wisconsin of the City of New York, 1938. p. 68, no. 102
• Il'in, Nikolas. "Prodannye Sokrovishcha Rossii." Moscow: Trilistnik, Russkii Avangard, 2000. p. 79
• Shelton, Andrew Carrington. "Ingres and his Critics". Cambridge, MA: The Cambridge University Press, 2005. p. 105, no. 25
• Chazen Museum of Art. "Holy Image, Sacred Presence: Russian Icons, 1500-1900." unpublished, exhibition brochure, 2011. cover; p. 5, no. 2
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 8, No. 3, June/July/ August 1992. p. 2
• Galavaris, George. "Icons from the Elvehjem Art Center." Madison: Elvehjem Art Center, 1973. pp. 100-103, no. 15

• Holy Image, Sacred Presence: Russian Icons, 1500-1900: Chazen Museum of Art, 3/12/2011–6/5/2011
• Icons: The Paine Art Center, 12/6/1964–1/28/1965
• Masterpieces of Art from the Collections of the University of Wisconsin and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 6/15/1949–7/8/1949
• Joseph E. Davies Collection of Paintings, The : Milwaukee Art Institute, 10/1/1938–10/31/1938
• Joseph E. Davies Collection of Russian Paintings and Icons Presented to the University of Wisconsin: Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 6/1/1938–6/30/1938

• Europe
• Icons
• Joseph E. Davies Collection

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