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Date : between 1490 and 1500
Material : Oil painting on wood
Acquisition : (1933)
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European Painting
Painting
Area related
Picardie (France)
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Together with "The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem", now in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and "Saint Honoré" in the Art Institute, these panels formed the wings of an altarpiece made for the Carthusian monastery at Thuison-les Abbeville, France. During the French revolution, the altarpiece was dismantled, and the backs were separated from the fronts. The standing saints originally decorated the exterior of the wings, and the narrative scenes were on the interior, flanking a sculpted Crucifixion. The most important surviving late-medieval paintings from the region of Picardie, these panels, with their bright colors and limited space, are a distinctive variation on the style of the great fifteenth-century Netherlandish painters Rogier van der Weyden and Dieric Bouts.
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