Four panel paintings from a winged altarpiece
c. 1470
Pine, tempera
St. Simon, St. Judas Thaddeus (or St. James the Less), St. Matthias. Right feast-day side of the movable wing of a winged altarpiece
Inv. 55.35
70 x 60.3 cm
The professional literature has treated the panels depicting three apostles (55.34, 55.35) and the apostles’ farewell (55.36) and the panel showing female saints (55.37) as elements from the same altarpiece, although, despite the many similarities, significant incongruities can also be observed. The differences in the surviving background patterns, the details of the spaces, the facial types and the body proportions suggest several hands were involved. The dimensions, however, are conspicuously identical.
Provenance:
Ipolyi Collection. (According to tradition, Ipolyi acquired the panels from the castle of the Kapeller family. This information was probably based on a mistaken interpretation of the inscription, visible at that time, on the back of one of the panels. The error also led to the assumption that the work originated in Sáros County.)
Bibliography
Genthon-1948, 28. - Radocsay-1955a, 13. - Radocsay-1955b 325.- Végh János: Adatok táblaképfestészetünk ikonográfiájához. In: Művészettörténeti Értesítő 8 (1959), 148-149, 8. kép. - Boskovits-Mojzer-Mucsi-1964 126 - 128. - Walicki Michal: Malarstwo polskie. Gotyk, Renesans, wezesny manieryzm; Rec. Végh János. In: Acta Historiae Artium 12 (1966), 255. - Cséfalvay-1993. 24, 177.– Magyar Szentek tisztelete és ereklyéi. Exh. cat.. Esztergom 2000, 123. - Sankt Pölten-2015, 134. (Sarkadi-Nagy)
The professional literature has treated the panels depicting three apostles (55.34, 55.35) and the apostles’ farewell (55.36) and the panel showing female saints (55.37) as elements from the same altarpiece, although, despite the many similarities, significant incongruities can also be observed. The differences in the surviving background patterns, the details of the spaces, the facial types and the body proportions suggest several hands were involved. The dimensions, however, are conspicuously identical.
Provenance:
Ipolyi Collection. (According to tradition, Ipolyi acquired the panels from the castle of the Kapeller family. This information was probably based on a mistaken interpretation of the inscription, visible at that time, on the back of one of the panels. The error also led to the assumption that the work originated in Sáros County.)
Bibliography
Genthon-1948, 28. - Radocsay-1955a, 13. - Radocsay-1955b 325.- Végh János: Adatok táblaképfestészetünk ikonográfiájához. In: Művészettörténeti Értesítő 8 (1959), 148-149, 8. kép. - Boskovits-Mojzer-Mucsi-1964 126 - 128. - Walicki Michal: Malarstwo polskie. Gotyk, Renesans, wezesny manieryzm; Rec. Végh János. In: Acta Historiae Artium 12 (1966), 255. - Cséfalvay-1993. 24, 177.– Magyar Szentek tisztelete és ereklyéi. Exh. cat.. Esztergom 2000, 123. - Sankt Pölten-2015, 134. (Sarkadi-Nagy)
