Two Wings of a Triptych with the Donor, Thomas Isaacq, accompanied by Saint Thomas (left, outer wing), and the Donor's Wife accompanied by Saint Margaret (right, outer wing), Master of the Magdalen Legend, c. 1505 - c. 1510

Title(s)

Two Wings of a Triptych with the Donor, Thomas Isaacq, accompanied by Saint Thomas (left, outer wing), and the Donor's Wife accompanied by Saint Margaret (right, outer wing)

Object type

• painting
• triptych

Object number

SK-A-962-B

Inscriptions / marks

• coat of arms, centre left, on Thomas Isaacq’s sleeve: quartered, 1 and 4 quartered, i and iv quartered, A and D, a gold castle with a blue gate on a red field (Castile), B and C, a red lion rampant on a silver field (Leon); 2 and 3 divided vertically, A, six red pales on a gold field (Aragon), B, quartered diagonally, a and d, four red pales on a gold field, b and c, a black eagle on a silver field (jointly Sicily); at the base a triangle with a green pomegranate with red seeds on a silver field (Granada); 2 and 3 quartered again, i, a horizontal silver band on a red field (Austria), ii, gold fleurs-de-lis strewn on a blue field, with a border chequered red and silver (New Burgundy, in fact the arms of France with added border), iii, six diagonal bands, blue and gold, with a red border (Old Burgundy), iv, a gold lion rampant on a black field (Brabant); an inescutcheon divided vertically, 1, a black lion rampant on a gold field (Flanders); 2, a crowned red eagle on a silver field (Tyrol)

Description

Twee vleugels van een drieluik. Buitenkant linkerzijpaneel: de knielende stichter Thomas Isaacq (overl. 1539-40), wapenkoning van het Gulden Vlies, getooid met het wapen van Philips de Schone, vergezeld door de heilige Thomas. Buitenkant rechterzijpaneel: de knielende echtgenote van de stichter met de heilige Margaretha (voor de binnenzijden en het middenpaneel zie SK-A-962-C en SK-A-962-A).

Artist

• painter: Master of the Magdalen Legend

Dating

c. 1505 - c. 1510

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

• panel
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

support: height 89.8 cm × width 28.7 cm
depth 9 cm

What

• historical persons
• the apostle Thomas; possible attributes: book, chalice, girdle, heart, lance or spear, scroll, square, stones
• the virgin martyr Margaret of Antioch; possible attributes: cross, crown, dragon (under feet or on chain), (chaplet of) pearls

Who

• Orde van het Gulden Vlies
• Thomas Isaac

Acquisition

purchase 1880

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Related

• Christus aan het kruis
• Twee vleugels van een drieluik, met de portretten van een man en een vrouw, respectievelijk vergezeld van Johannes de Doper en de heilige Adrianus