Christ taking leave of His Mother (recto); and The Miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes (verso)

We are grateful to Peter van den Brink for confirming that this panel was executed by an Antwerp hand, on the basis of photographs. He notes furthermore, that the panel would have been part of a larger winged, compound altarpiece, the subject of which most likely was the Passion of Christ. Many Antwerp altarpieces were dismantled in the early 19th century, during Napoleon’s division of Church and State.