1888 Chromolithograph Slavic Marriage Russia Dance Priest Ceremony Ritual LCH5 Portrait "Still Life" This is an

"Still Life" This is an original 1943 black and white and grayscale heliogravure of a 1934 oil painting by Georges Braque

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Ras Suwiq is in the distance behind it

1888 Chromolithograph Slavic Marriage Russia Dance Priest Ceremony Ritual LCH5 Portrait "Still Life" This is anThis is a rare original 1888 color chromolithograph which depicts two fascinating traditional Russian scenes. In the upper panel a young couple performs a Russia dance, which is more than a pantomime than anything else. The lower panel portrays a joyous Slavic marriage ceremony. The priest has placed silver marriage crowns upon the heads of the newlyweds, a symbolic event that would often be done by the droujkis, or paranymphs, of an upper class bride