MASTER of Eggenburg
(active 1475-1500 in Lower Austria)

St Adalbert and St Procopius (exterior)

1490s
Oil and gold on spruce panel, 71 x 45 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This painting was originally the exterior side of a double-sided panel which was later separated in two. The interior side depicts The Burial of St Wenceslas. The altarpiece to which the panels belonged comprised an unknown number of paintings depicting scenes from the life of St Wenceslas (c. 907-935), Bohemian duke of the Premyslid dynasty. Two others, depicting saints are in a private collection. The panels of paired saints formed the exterior wings of the altarpiece, while the narrative episodes from the saint's life were on the interior.