A triptych: central panel: The Raising of Lazarus; the wings: on the left, a male donor, kneeling, with his sons, presented by Saint Jacob; and on the right, the donor’s wife, kneeling, with her daughters, presented by Saint Catherine

The donor of the present triptych has been identified as Jakob Stockel, a wealthy fish merchant who resided in Bergen, Norway and Deventer in the Netherlands during the 16th century. It has been suggested that the wings of the present work may not have originally been paired with the central Raising of Lazarus.

We are grateful to Jan van Helmont for his kind assistance in identifying the donors of the present work on the basis of photographs.