The present picture originally comprised the central section of an enormous altarpiece devoted to the Eucharist. Its monumentality and stark symmetricality, as well as certain details, reveal the impact of the great altarpiece of the same subject, in the Museo Catedralino, Segorbe (Castellón), ascribed to Jaime Baço Jacomart (c.1410/17-1461) and datable c.1455. As Chandler Rathfon Post observed (A History of Spanish Painting, VI, 1935, Part I, p.14) 'The greater part of the pictorial output at Valencia in the middle and third quarter of the fifteenth century is executed in a single, homogeneous style the fountain-head of which is generally stated to have been Jacomart' and the importance of the Segorbe altarpiece has recently been emphasized by María Lourdes Herrero (in the catalogue of the exhibition, Reyes y Mecenas. Los Reyes Católicos - Maximiliano I y los Inicios de la Casa de Austria en España, Museo de Santa Cruz, Toledo, 12 March - 31 May 1992, p.553): 'El Retablo de la Ultima Cena de la Catedral de Segorbe forma el conjunto más característico de toda su producción, donde concurren todas las influencias de su pintura: la imaginería nórdica y los valores plásticos y volumétricos del arte italiano. Jacomart, sin hacer concesiones a la naturaleza, utiliza todavía una técnica medieval en la interpretación de los elementos decorativos'. Jacomart's style was perpetuated in Valencia by his collaborator Joan Reixac (c.1411-c.1492) and by the Perea Master. While the present picture is firmly within the tradition of Jacomart and Reixac, certain stylistic traits relate it to the oeuvre of the Perea Master, such as his name work, the altarpiece of 'The Adoration of the Kings' painted for the chapel in the Convent of Santo Domingo in Valencia founded c.1491 by Doña Violante de Santa Pau, widow of Pedro Perea, and now in the Museum there (for the section showing 'Christ presenting the Redeemed of the Old Dispensation to his Mother', see Post, op. cit., p.271, fig.104; a recently rediscovered vertical variant of this was sold at Christie's, New York, 16 Jan. 1992, lot 81)