Tuesday 8 March 2011

Carthusiastic enquiry

A monk of St Hugh's Charterhouse would like to know if anyone knows anything about this picture. Can anyone help, please?

4 comments:

Little Black Sambo said...

Eastern Orthodox, but westernized, so 19th or early 20th century.

Web said...

Looks like it's a picture of the Blessed Virgin and a young Jesus.

Pastor in Monte said...

Web: Well there we are then! Problem solved. Genius.

LBS, yes, I think it might be 19C Russian myself.

Unknown said...

It's a still from episode 1 of the BBC's 1981 adaptation of John le Carre's Smiley's People. Ostensibly it's at the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Paris.