THE ELEOUSA MOTHER OF GOD
GREEK, c. late 18th/early 19th Century
The Mother of God holding Christ with tenderness, their faces touching each other, painted with a combination of pink and brown shades and emphasised by delicate brushstrokes, the folds of the Virgin's brown maphorion rendered with ochre colour. Tempera, tooled gold leaf and gesso on wood
21 x 17 cm