Twee panelen uit de kring van Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Two panels from the environment of Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. In the discussion of the iconography of two panels from the environment of Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen of Rotterdam new interpretations are proposed. The panels make up the shutters of a triptych with a now lost central panel with unknown subject. The previously unidentified donor on the panel with St Christopher must be Mr Dirk Willemsz van Rietwijk, a canon of the St Catherine's chapter of the private Egmont chapel in Egmond aan den Hoef. The two saints depicted as sculptures on the reverses of the shutters, formerly identified as Edward the Confessor and an anonymous canonized monk from Scotland, appear to be St Adalbert and St Jeroen (Hieron), both saints strongly connected with the North of Holland, and especially with Egmond Abbey. The original triptych must have been painted for Mr. Dirk van Rietwijk c.1516, with the purpose to place it within the Egmond aan den Hoef collegiate chapel. When in 1516 Mr. Dirk suddenly died in the Flemish town of Louvain, this triptych apparently was brought to the collegiate church of St. Peter's in Louvain to serve as an epitaph near the grave of Mr. Dirk Willemsz van Rietwijk in the chapel of St. Dorothy.