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| Keywords: Jacques de Poindre - Portrait of St Nicholas - Walters 372615.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18749480 Creator Jacob de Punder en These companion images represent the abbot Nicolas à Spira on the right in prayer to his patron saint the 4th-century bishop St Nicholas On the backs of the panels are remnants of an Annunciation scene with Gabriel on one panel and the Virgin on the other The panels were part of an altarpiece with the Annunciation visible as a unified scene on the exterior of the wings when the altarpiece was closed On the interior the two Nicholases flanked a lost central image perhaps a Madonna and Child The altarpiece signed and dated by the little-known Jacques de Poindre was commissioned by the abbot for his Abbey of Grimbergen in the southern Netherlands Depicting the saintly bishop and the living abbot in similar ecclesiastical vestments lends dignity to the latter 1563 Renaissance oil on panel cm 85 5 57 5 accession number 37 2615 37591 Abbey of Grimbergen Brabant 1563 until the late 18th century de Malherbe Collection Valenciennes Sale October 17-18 1883 no 46 Comte Jacques de Béraudière Paris Sale Cabinet Foucart October 10-12 1898 no 65 de Somzée Collection Sale Brussels May 24 1904 no 565 Private Collection Netherlands Nathan Katz Galerie Pardo Paris by 1952 Walters Art Museum 1984 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the W Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund 1984 place of origin Mechelen Belgium Walters Art Museum license 2D Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Jacob de Punder Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Paintings of Saint Nicholas | ||||
