A triptych: The Virgin and Child enthroned in a landscape contiguous with the wings (central panel); Saint Philip (left wing); St Helen and a Donatrix in the habit of a Benedictine nun (right wing) |...

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The Master of the Magdalene Legend
Active probably in Brussels circa 1483 - after 1520
A triptych: The Virgin and Child enthroned in a landscape contiguous with the wings (central panel); Saint Philip (left wing); St Helen and a Donatrix in the habit of a Benedictine nun (right wing)

charged with the coat-of-arms of the De Gistelles d'Esquelbecq family, presumably those of the Donatrix, on the right-hand wing
oil on oak panels, framed as one
central panel: 42 x 30 cm; 16½ x 11¾ in.
wings each: 43 x 14 cm.; 17 x 5½ in.

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抹大拉生平畫師
約1483年 - 1520年後可能活躍於布魯塞爾
《三聯作：聖母與聖嬰加冕，後方風景延綿至左右兩翼（中央畫板）；聖菲利普（左翼）；聖海倫與穿本篤會修女服的女布施者（右翼）》

款識：具德・吉斯特勒斯・德斯克貝克家族紋章，應屬畫中女布施者（右上）
油彩橡木畫板，裱於同一畫框
中央畫板：42 x 30 公分；16½ x 11¾ 英寸
兩翼：43 x 14 公分；17 x 5½ 英寸

Condition Report:
The following condition report is provided by Henry Gentle who is an external specialist and not an employee of Sotheby's:

Master of the Magdalene Legend
A triptych
Oil on panel, in modern gilt wood frames in good condition.

The oak supports to the side panels are painted to the revers, the central oak panel is cradled.

The paint layers are stable and secure to the side panels; there is some raised paint through the red back cloth to the Madonna’s throne, in the central panel, and minor historic flaked loss can be seen.

The paint texture throughout the triptych is very well preserved and in good original condition. The raised, impasted details to the carved tracery to the Madonna’s throne is intact along with the decorative details to the female saint’s dress.

Minor repaired loss to the sky along vertical wood grain and to thinness through the bodice of the female saint can be detected.

Finer more vulnerable details to faces, hair and to the background landscapes are very well preserved.

Chromatic and tonal values as well as atmospheric perspective are well maintained.

Removal of a discoloured varnish would improve the tonality of the triptych, not least the blue dress of the Madonna, where the folds are obscured by a degraded layer .

The triptych presents well,

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Provenance:
With J. Dreyer, London, 1923;

Art market, Lucerne, 1923;

With Reinhardt Galleries, New York, 1923;

With Fritz Steinmeyer, Lucerne, 1926;

With P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1964;

From whom acquired by Willy Kaus, Frankfurt, in Autumn 1964;

Thence by inheritance to the present owners.