# Triptych [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MEMLING, Hans]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Oil on wood, 69 x 47 cm \(central\), 63,5 x 18,5 cm each wing\) ## Commentary Triptych c. 1485 Oil on wood, 69 x 47 cm \(central\), 63,5 x 18,5 cm each wing\) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The triptych with the Virgin and Child Enthroned in Vienna must have been painted before 1488. The present donor, dressed in a dark tabard, is not by Memling and conceals another figure who turns out to be none other than Abbot Jan Crabbe, who died in 1488. The wings show the two St Johns with the \`living' figures of Adam and Eve in niches on the exterior \(seen when the wings are closed\). For the first time the painting includes the italianate motif of putti stretching festoons across the scene at the top. Similar figures appear on a couple of other occasions in Memling, including the Resurrection triptych \(Paris, Musée du Louvre\) and the Virgin Enthroned in Florence. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Advent and Triumph of Christ \(detail\)]() - [Advent and Triumph of Christ \(detail\)]() - [Advent and Triumph of Christ]() - [Allegory with a Virgin]() - [Angel Musicians \(left panel\)]() - [Angel Musicians]() - [Angel with an Olive Branch, Emblem of Divine Peace]() - [Annunciation]() - [Bathsheba]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()