EMPIRE RUSSE, XIXème siècle The birth of the Virgin Mary, with St. Anne in bed in the background, St. Joachim in a studiolo, and the washing of the infant in the foreground, in an architectural perspective, under God the Father in a cloud. Icon. Tempera on wood. Two horizontal braces on the back. Oklad in embossed brass, desilvered, taking up the composition of the icon, with openings for the heads and hands. With two enamelled cartouches on copper, titled. 37,3 x 32 cm. Wear, chips and damages to the icon; wear to the silvering and to the decorations, scratches, deformation and shocks to the oklad, and damages to the cartouches.