Lot number 991 - Auction 161
SIGNIERTE IKONE MIT DER GOTTESMUTTER 'UNERWARTETE FREUDE'

A SIGNED ICON SHOWING THE MOTHER OF GOD 'UNEXPECTED JOY' Russian, Moscow, Ivan Fedorovich Erzunov, circa 1900 Tempera on wood panel with kovcheg. The haloes gilded. The reverse stamped in Cyrillic 'ERZUNOV'. Minor retouching. 30.2 x 25 cm. Ivan Fedorovich Erzunov was a Russian icon painter active in Moscow in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Archival records document him as a guild icon painter in Moscow. In 1903, among other commissions, he received an extensive order to execute icons for the iconostasis of the Selenginsk Trinity Monastery.