Saint Donatian; Saint Victor Presenting a Donor
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
(18) 9 1/2 x 3 7/8 in. (24.1 x 9.8 cm); (19) 9 1/2 x 4 in. (24.1 x 10.2 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
Accession Number
1982.60.18–19
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the heart of Bruges, a thriving hub of 15th- and 16th-century Netherlandish art, this of delicate oil-on-wood panels*Saint Donatian* and * Victor Presenting a Donor*exemplifies the exquisite devotional works produced by anonymous masters of the Northern Renaissance. Measuring just 9½ inches tall, these slender paintings (likely wings from a diptych or small altiece) depict revered saints: Saint Donatian, Bruges' patron, and Saint Victor, shown interceding for a kneeling donor figure. Candles and crosses in the compositions evoke spiritual illumination and martyrdom, common motifs in Flemish...