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- Artist
- Unknown (Russian)
- Title
- Veil with the Dormition of the Mother of God and the Reverends Anthony and Feodosy of Pechery
- Date
- late 19th-early 20th century
- Medium
- Silk, satin, and gold and silver thread embroidery on silk on canvas
- Dimensions
- 20 1/2 x 28 1/4 in. overall
- Credit
- Gift of Mia Grosjean from the Joseph E. Davies collection
- Accession No.
- 2019.46.1
- Classification
- Miscellanea
- Geography
- Russia
Related
Uspensky-Svensky Monastery (Suponevo, Bryansk Oblast, Russia); possibly in the 1920s, removed from Uspensky-Svensky Monastery (no later than 1926, when the monastery was shut down); 1937-1938, acquired in Russia by Ambassador Joseph E. Davies or Emlen Knight Davies (Grosjean Evers) [daughter of Ambassador Joseph E. Davies]; ca. 1980, gifted by Emlen Knight Davies (Grosjean Evers) to her daughter, Mia Grosjean (Washington, DC); 2019, gifted to the Chazen Museum of Art.
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