Triptych of the Martyrdom of St Hippolytus
Sizes
One object, sold whole, as St Salvator's Cathedral, Bruges shows it. 3 sheets, one edition, $399 — the printed panels hang level within 0.0%.
The saint has the patron's face. Jos Koldeweij argues that Hippolytus was given the features of Hippolyte de Berthoz, the man who ordered the triptych, so patron and namesake share one body in the centre panel.
That body is tied to four draught horses, each facing a corner of the panel, their riders apparently just given the signal. On the left wing, whose completion is attributed to Hugo van der Goes, De Berthoz and his wife, Elisabeth Hugheins, kneel before a moated country house and watch. The patron kneels safely on one panel and is pulled apart on the next.
The panels hang in a row at one image height; the hung images measure about 44.4 in across, before any gap between frames.
Printed on demand as one edition. The whole image is printed on every sheet — never cropped to fit — so each panel carries an archival margin.