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Triptych with the Last Supper and Donors

circle of Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, c. 1525 - c. 1530

This triptych is the earliest known and best-preserved verre églomisé painting (a type of reverse painting on glass) from the northern Netherlands. It is still in its original frame. The donors depicted on the wings are Adriana van Rhoon (c. 1450-1527) and Dirck Pietersz Spangert (c. 1465-1549); she was the abbess and he the chaplain and jurist of Leeuwenhorst Abbey in Noordwijkerhout.

  • Artwork typetriptych, reverse painting on glass
  • Object numberMissing ObjectNumber
  • Dimensionssupport: height 45 cm (centre panel) x width 39 cm (centre panel) x height 45 cm (left wing) x width 20 cm (left wing) x height 45 cm (right wing) x width 18.7 cm (right wing)
  • Physical characteristicsoil on glass

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Triptych with the Last Supper and Donors
    • Triptych with the Last Supper (centre panel), Adriana van Roon (c. 1450-1527) with St James the Greater (inner left wing), Dirk Pietersz Spangert (c. 1465-1549) with St Mary Magdalen (inner right wing), the coats of arms of Adriana van Roon (outer left wing) and the Spangert house mark (outer right wing)
    • Triptych with the Last Supper (former title)

  • Object type

  • Object number

    Missing ObjectNumber

  • Description

    Drieluik met op het middenpaneel het laatste avondmaal. Judas heeft woedend zijn stoel omgegooid, vooraan kauwt een hond op een been. Op de linker zijpaneel de geknielde vrouwelijke stichter Adriana van Roon (ca. 1450-1527) met de heilige Jacobus. Op het rechter zijpaneel de mannelijke stichter Dirk Pietersz. Spangert (ca. 1465-1549) met heilige Maria Magdalena. Op de buitenzijde van de zijpanelen staan de familiewapens van de stichters.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • coat of arms, left wing, right on the prie-dieu, on the outer left wing: ‘divided vertically, 1, on a silver field a horizontal red bar charged with a gold demi-lion flanked by 15 oblong green blocks, five over four above the bar and three over two over one below the bar; 2, one half and four whole triangular gold pieces on a red field’ a black house mark on a silver field
    • coat of arms, inner right wing, lower left, on the prie-dieu: ‘a black house mark on a silver field’

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Creation

  • Creation

    • painter: circle of Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Amsterdam (possibly)
    • painter: Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen [rejected attribution]

  • Dating

    c. 1525 - c. 1530

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on glass

  • Dimensions

    support: height 45 cm (centre panel) x width 39 cm (centre panel) x height 45 cm (left wing) x width 20 cm (left wing) x height 45 cm (right wing) x width 18.7 cm (right wing)

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