Panel painted on both sides: the recto showing St. Paul the Apostle, the verso showing a detail from the Mount of Olives scene
1440-50
Pine, painted, gilt
82 x 39 (painted surface), frame: 88.5 x 45.5 cm
Inv. 54.14
The panel painted on both sides, depicting the standing figure of St. Paul on the feast-day side, may have been the lower panel of the right side of the movable wing of a former retable. The panels appearing one above the other in the narrow wings were originally separated from each other by a painted frame, the traces of which can be seen on the upper edge of the panel, on both sides. The wings were obviously later sawed apart horizontally. The style of the images links them to mid-15th century painting in Salzburg or Vienna.
Provenance:
Ipolyi Collection, “140. Szent Pál apostol egész alakban; a hátlapon
három alvó apostol. Oltárszárnyrészlet deszkán. Gyarló festmény a XVI. sz. elejéről.” (Lakatos-Balla-2012 290)/‘140. The full-length figure of St. Paul; on the reverse three sleeping apostles. Altar wing details affixed to a panel. Weak painting from the early 16th c.’/
Restoration:
Maria Velekei, 1977
Bibliography:
Bihar-vármegye 1898, 140. – Gerevich-1930, 86-87. – Genthon-1932, 46. – Genthon-1948, 24. – Radocsay-1955b, 78. – Stange-1961. XI. 156 (under Bavarian influence, ca. 1430-40). – Boskovits-Mojzer-Mucsi-1964 121, 124. – Mucsi-1975, 10
Provenance:
Ipolyi Collection, “140. Szent Pál apostol egész alakban; a hátlapon
három alvó apostol. Oltárszárnyrészlet deszkán. Gyarló festmény a XVI. sz. elejéről.” (Lakatos-Balla-2012 290)/‘140. The full-length figure of St. Paul; on the reverse three sleeping apostles. Altar wing details affixed to a panel. Weak painting from the early 16th c.’/
Restoration:
Maria Velekei, 1977
Bibliography:
Bihar-vármegye 1898, 140. – Gerevich-1930, 86-87. – Genthon-1932, 46. – Genthon-1948, 24. – Radocsay-1955b, 78. – Stange-1961. XI. 156 (under Bavarian influence, ca. 1430-40). – Boskovits-Mojzer-Mucsi-1964 121, 124. – Mucsi-1975, 10
