St. Nicholas

Description St. Nicolas the Miracle-Worker, bishop of Myra (a city in Asia Minor), is flanked by Christ and the Virgin above (they are handing him a Gospel book and an omophorion, signs of his episcopal authority) and by two unidentified monastic saints below (perhaps Basil the Great and Sergius of Radonezh).

Provenance [Purchased in Russia]; George Way Williams, Detroit, Michigan, 1919-1920, by purchase; Mrs. J. Henry Dasenbrook, Baltimore, Maryland, ca. 1980, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1985, by gift.

Credit Gift of Mrs. J. Henry Dasenbrock, 1985