Lot number 1292 - Auction 147
IKONE MIT DEM DORNENGEKRÖNTEN CHRISTUS

AN ICON SHOWING CHRIST 'SAVIOUR IN A CROWN OF THORNS Russian, after Viktor Vasnetsov, after 1906 Oil on wood panel. The halo and border decorated with engraved stylized patterns emulating the metal oklads of contemporary icons. Vertical crack, losses, damages. 31 x 26.8 cm. This offered icon is a copy of an icon which is known by a drawing by Vasnetzov. This drawing showing the ''Savior in a crown of thorns'', created in 1906, is a sketch of an icon for the Cathedral of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos - the regimental church of the Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment, built in 1837-1842 according to the project of Konstantin Ton in St. Petersburg. The icon case with the image was installed on a marble tomb in which the remains of three Semyonovites who died during the suppression of unrest in Moscow in December 1905, and the commander of the Semyonovsky regiment, Major General G.A. Mine, killed in a terrorist attack in August 1906. The cathedral was destroyed in 1933, and a public garden was laid out in its place. After 1934, the image of the Savior in the Crown of Thorns is considered lost.