Triptych Triptych
The triptych over the altar in the Chapel is attributed on stylistic grounds to the unknown Master of the View of Sainte-Gudule. The wood panels were probably painted in the 1480s. They are probably the remnants of a much larger altar-piece. We have no idea how they came to the College.
In his notebook 1741-52, George Vertue recorded seeing:
Cambridge At Queens Coll. in the Masters Lodge large flat paintings in oyl after the manner of Albert Dure representing several of our Saviors Miracles.
In 1810, Ann Plumptre, daughter of Robert Plumptre, President of Queens' 1760-88, in comparing the Queens' triptych with one in the cathedral at Aix, recollects that the Queens' triptych had been mounted at the end of the Long Gallery when she had been a child in the Lodge.
The triptych was erected as part of a reredos over the altar of the new college chapel by George Bodley in 1891.
The scenes depicted in each panel are:
On the reverse of each panel, there are depictions of saints. These cannot normally be seen, as the panels are now fixed in their frames.