Original leaf from a Russian manuscript Lectionary in Church Slavonic.(215x170mm)
Full-page watercolor paintings, such as this, accompanied the text in the Lectionary – illustrating significant liturgical passages with scenes from the Life of Christ. This scene is painted in a particularly vivid and whimsical provincial manner.
Russia, 2nd half of the 18th century.
This watercolor painting is from a manuscript of the ''Old Believers'' sold by Sotheby’s in London, December 1996.
Lectionaries are selections of texts arranged for use in the church liturgy. The ''Old Believers'' are a schismatic group of the Russian Orthodox Church. The schism began in the 1650’s and the Old Believers were not officially tolerated in Russia until 1905.
Shipped in archival 13x11'' mat.
