# The Dormition of the Virgin \(interior\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SCHÄUFELEIN, Hans Leonhard]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil and gold on fir panel, 139 x 134 cm ## Commentary The Dormition of the Virgin \(interior\) c. 1510 Oil and gold on fir panel, 139 x 134 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This large double-sided panel, one of four that once formed the wings of a folding triptych, represents the Dormition of the Virgin on the interior side and Christ Carrying the Cross on the exterior. The triptych depicted on the exterior scenes from the Passion of Christ and on the interior, episodes from the life of the Virgin. The other three panels are in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, and the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, England. The missing centrepiece most likely displayed sculptures of the Virgin and Child flanked by saints. The altarpiece is attributed to Hans Schäufelein with the contribution of an assistant, probably the Master of Engerda, a master named after his participation in the painted portions of an altarpiece shrine in the Evangelische Pfarrkirche, Engerda \(Thuringia\). He worked alongside Hans Schäufelein in the Augsburg workshop of Hans Holbein the Elder in the 1510s. ## Related artworks - [Christ Carrying the Cross \(exterior\)]() - [Christ in the Temple]() - [Christ Taking Leave of His Mother]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Reconstruction of an altarpiece \(exterior\)]() - [Reconstruction of an altarpiece \(interior\)]() - [The Adoration of the Magi]() - [The Agony in the Garden]() - [The Ascension]() - [The Birth of Christ]() - [The Circumcision of Christ]() - [The Dormition of the Virgin \(interior, detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()