Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1490-1530
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Object Number
1641
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
Dimensions
Overall Open: 161.6mm × 85mm × 39.5mm × 44.8mm (16.2 × 8.5 × 3.9 × 4.5 cm)
Description
Triptych: Adoration of the Magi; Left wing: Annunciation, Journey to Bethlehem, Nativity
Right wing: Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt; Christ in the Temple
Reliquary holder behind blank escutcheon on base
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin and Dutch inscriptions under scenes:
Et tu betlee t'ra iud' [left wing- Matthew 2:6]
fili q fecisti nob sic [right wing - Luke 2:48]
IASPER BALTESAR MELGIOR [on base - Flemish version of names in Latin script]
[source: Mesenzeva 1978]
Et tu betlee t'ra iud' [left wing- Matthew 2:6]
fili q fecisti nob sic [right wing - Luke 2:48]
IASPER BALTESAR MELGIOR [on base - Flemish version of names in Latin script]
[source: Mesenzeva 1978]
Published References
Charmian A. Mesenzeva, Spätgotische Miniaturschnitzereien (Pantheon Jan-March 1978) pp 31-35; Hermitage 1988, 86-88
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 10
Provenance
Provenance
Denis and Lomba Catero Collection, St. Petersburg; Museum of the Imperial Society of the Advancement of the Arts, St. Petersburg, transferred to Hermitage in 1919
Previous Owner(s)
Denis and Lomba Catero Collection
Museum of the Imperial Society for the Advancement of Arts, Russia