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A Donor and his two Sons with Saint John the Evangelist, inner left wing of a triptych

Unknown

1480

unspecified

From the collection of Rijksmuseum

Northern Renaissance Renaissance Religious

Dominant colour

A Donor and his two Sons with Saint John the Evangelist, inner left wing of a triptych is a 1480 unspecified by Unknown, a Northern Renaissance work, held at Rijksmuseum.

Who painted this?: Unknown
When & what style?: 1480 · Northern Renaissance
Where can I see it?: Rijksmuseum

About this work

You see a man kneeling in a red robe, two boys beside him, and a saint in green behind them. A quiet landscape rolls out in the background. This is the left wing of a triptych—a three-panel altarpiece. The donor (the man who paid for it) and his sons are shown praying, but their faces are generic. The real personality is in the saint’s face and the tiny details: a bird in the sky, a distant church spire. To see how other artists painted donors and saints, look up works in the Rijksmuseum.