Title(s)

Memorial Triptych, formerly called the Gertz Memorial Triptych, with the Lamentation (central panel), nine male Donor Portraits with Saint John the Evangelist (left wing, inner), nine female Donor Portraits with the Virgin and Child (right wing, inner), Saint Peter (left wing, outer) and Saint Mary Magdalene (right wing, outer)

Object type

• painting
• triptych

Object number

SK-A-4488

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription, upper right, centre panel, on Mary Magdalen’s collar: ‘MAGD...’
• inscription, on the lower portion of the attached frame of the centre panel: ‘Hier legghen begraven willem gertz die starf an[n]o m ccccc en xxxiiii den xiii marcij stijntgen dirck claessens starf anno xxxi den vi septembris maria willemsz starf an[n]o xxxviii den v aprilis anna willemsz starf an[n]o xxxvii den xiiii septe[m]bris. bidt voer die zielen’ (Here lie Willem Gertz, who died on the 13th of March 1534, Stijntgen Dirck Claessens, who died on the 6th of September 1531, Maria Willemsz, who died on the 5th of April 1538, Anna Willemsz, who died on the 14th of September 1537. Pray for their souls)
• inscription, left outer wing, top: ‘15’
• inscription, right outer wing, top: ‘61’

Description

De Gertz memorietafel. Drieluik met op het middenpaneel de kruisafneming of bewening (kopie naar een verloren gegaan origineel van Hugo van der Goes), met het lichaam van Christus gedragen door Jozef van Arimathea en Nicodemus. Maria, Johannes en Maria Magdalena (allen halffiguren) zien toe. Op de binnenzijde van het rechter zijpaneel de stichter Willem Gertz met zijn zoons en de heilige Johannes, op de linker zijpaneel zijn echtgenote Styntgen Dirck Claesgens met haar dochters en Maria met kind. Op de buitenkant van de zijpanelen grisailles van de heiligen Petrus en Maria Magdalena. Met geïntegreerde lijst.

Artist

• painter: Hugo van der Goes (copy after)
• painter: anonymous

Place

Low Countries

Dating

after c. 1527

Physical features

Oil on panel

Material

• panel
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

support: height 84 cm (centre panel) × width 105.3 cm (centre panel) × height 86 cm (left wing) × width 46 cm (left wing) × height 86 cm (right wing) × width 46 cm (right wing)
height 177 cm × width c. 246 cm × depth 6.5 cm

What

• Christ's body supported (+ donor(s), supplicant(s) whether or not with patron saint(s))

Who

• Willem Gertz
• Styntgen Dirck Claesgens

Acquisition

purchase 1892

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Parts

• Central panel of a Memorial Triptych, formerly called the Gertz Memorial Triptych, with the Lamentation (SK-A-4488-1)
• Left wing of a Memorial Triptych, formerly called the Gertz Memorial Triptych, with nine male Donor Portraits with Saint John the Evangelist (inner), and Saint Peter (outer) (SK-A-4488-2)
• Right wing of a Memorial Triptych, formerly called the Gertz Memorial Triptych, with nine female Donor Portraits with the Virgin and Child (inner), and Saint Mary Magdalene (outer) (SK-A-4488-3)

• 1100-1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, p. 127, afb. 42
• 1100 - 1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, p. 127, afb. 42