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Small painted wooden icon pendant. Left panel: a rider on a white horse spears a dragon on red. Right panel: the Virgin and child with haloed figures.

Double Diptych Icon Pendant with Saint George and Virgin and Child

A small hinged double panel painted in tempera on wood. The left leaf shows a mounted rider on a white horse spearing a dragon against a red ground, while the right leaf, behind glass, shows the Virgin holding the child, framed by haloed figures.

Artist
Unknown
Date
early 18th century
Medium
Wood, tempera pigment, string
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
4000 × 2960 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1800).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1997

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