The Last Judgment
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One object, sold whole: the Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku (National Museum in Gdańsk) holds it as SD/413/M. 3 sheets, one edition, $409.
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This altarpiece was taken at sea. Memling painted it in Bruges for a Florentine banker's family chapel near Florence, and in 1473 the galley carrying it, the San Matteo, was boarded by privateers out of Gdańsk under Paul Beneke sailing the Peter von Danzig, and towed into Stade. The captors gave it to the three patricians who owned their ship, brothers of the Confraternity of St George, who gave it to the church. It never reached Italy.
The triptych open, as the museum shows it: the saved received at the gate of heaven, Christ in judgment over Saint Michael, the damned driven into hell. The three panels are one height in the object (224 and 223.2 cm) and print level within 3.83%.
| Held by | Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku (National Museum in Gdańsk) · SD/413/M the museum’s record |
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| Source file | the Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku’s own photograph, sent to us by the museum (National Museum in Gdańsk) |
| Licence | The painting is public domain. The photograph is the museum’s own, supplied to us by the Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku, which asks to be named with the image as “Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku”, or in English as “National Museum in Gdańsk”. |
| Panel · left | The Last Judgment - The Saved at the Gate of Heaven (left wing) — 2,089 × 6,303 px |
| Panel · centre | The Last Judgment - Christ in Judgment, Saint Michael Weighing Souls (centre) — 4,500 × 6,239 px |
| Panel · right | The Last Judgment - The Damned Cast into Hell (right wing) — 2,025 × 6,312 px |
| Chain | Each panel taken from the source file above and cut to its own painted field; held as 3 print masters. |
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.