1500 · National Gallery, London

The painter, named after his pictures in the National Gallery, must have been trained in the Netherlands but worked in Paris at the turn of the fifteenth century. This panel was once part of a larger altarpiece which it has not been possible to reconstruct, although it must have included the Saint Gilles and the Hind shown nearby, and probably two other paintings of similar size now in Washington, one depicting the lower chapel of the Sainte-Chapelle, the other the square in front of Notre-Dame in Paris. The scene painted here has been set before the high altar of the Abbey of St-Denis near Paris, whose interior as it appeared around 1500 it documents with great accuracy, although the miracle shown is said to have taken place in 719, possibly in Orleans.Show more