MEMLING, Hans
(b. ca. 1440, Seligenstadt, d. 1494, Bruges)

Triptych of the Family Moreel (closed)

1484
Oil on wood, 141 x 87 cm (each wing)
Groeninge Museum, Bruges

The closed wings represent St John the Baptist and St George in grisaille. No adequate explanation for their presence has been found as yet. The two saints might have been included as the two sons' (Jan and Jaris) patron saints. The eldest son, Willem, was already protected by his father's patron on the front, and the two other sons are known to have died at a very early age.