Lot number 1625 - Auction 147
GROSSE UND SELTENE IKONE DES THRONENDEN BARTHOLOMÄUS AUS EINER KIRCHEN-IKONOSTASE IN MOSCHOPOL (HEUTE VOSKOPOJE, ALBANIEN)

KONSTANTIN JEROMONAKU OR HIEROMONAKU 1670 - 1728 (attributed) A LARGE AND VERY FINE ICON OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW ENTHRONED FROM A CHURCH ICONOSTASIS IN MOSCHOPOL (TODAY VOSKOPOJË, ALBANIA Early 18th century Tempera on wood panel. Finely executed in great detail against a brilliant gold background. Minor areas of retouching. 44.6 x 29.3 cm. On the back of the icon, there is a French label with the following inscription: "Ramassé dans les ruines d'une église de Moskopol (Macédoine) en août 1918; par Monsieur André Drouot sous-officier détaché au service Géographique de 3eme groupement de Division de l'Armée d'Orient." ("Picked up in the ruins of a church in Moschopol (Macedonia) in August 1918; by Mr. André Drouot, sub-officer detached to the Geographical Service of the 3rd Division group of the Army of the Orient." Starting in the 1670s, the iconographer Konstandin Jeromonaku expressed his artistic creativity through a refined, at times miniature-like, style. His figures were influenced by the school of Onufri and are distinguished by their extraordinary elegance, attention to detail, and a harmonious fusion of the human and the divine. Jeromonaku was active primarily in Epirus and Northern Epirus (modern-day Albania), particularly in Kastoria (Greece), Moschopol (Voskopojë), Elbasan, Vithkuq, and Korçë.