# House Altarpiece \(closed\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, German]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Oil and gold on linden panel, metal fixtures ## Commentary House Altarpiece \(closed\) c. 1490 Oil and gold on linden panel, metal fixtures Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When the altarpiece is closed, St Ursula is seen on the left and St Dorothy on the right, with their respective attributes. The commissioner of the altarpiece was a woman, indicated by the absence of male saints and by the unorthodox placement of the female figure to the propeer right of the holy group in the central shrine rather than the male figure, presumably her husband. ## Related artworks - [12 scenes from the Life of Christ]() - [A Bath-House]() - [A carpenter at work]() - [A Knight of the Rehlinger Family]() - [A Lady]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Altarpiece of the Seven Joys of Mary]() - [Altarpiece of the Seven Joys of Mary]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()