The Crucifixion Triptych, like the Seven Sacraments Altarpiece, is impressive in its composition. The two are linked not only by the use of a painted golden frame structure in the picture (not found, or not yet found, in any other surviving works by Rogier), but also in the style of the underdrawing. Both works may have been created at roughly the same time, and the dating of the triptych to around 1445, on dendrochronological evidence, would support that theory. Certainly the designs of both pictures derive from Rogier himself, but his assistants seem to have been involved in the execution, and perhaps did some of the preparatory underdrawing as well. The figures of the triptych are executed to a very high standard.

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	Crucifixion Triptych c. 1445 Oil on oak panel, 101 x 70 cm (central panel), 101 x 35 cm (each wing) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
	Crucifixion Triptych (left wing) c. 1445 Oil on oak panel, 101 x 35 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
	Crucifixion Triptych (central panel) c. 1445 Oil on oak panel, 101 x 70 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
	Crucifixion Triptych (right wing) c. 1445 Oil on oak panel, 101 x 35 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
	Crucifixion Triptych (detail) c. 1445 Oil on oak panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna