Altarpiece from Thuison-les-Abbeville: Saint Hugh of Lincoln  1500

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This panel was once part of the [url=https://www.artic.edu/collection?q=panels+from+the+high+altar&artist_ids=French+School&classification_ids=oil+on+panel]altarpiece[/url] decorating the high altar of the Carthusian monastery at Thuison, outside of Abbeville in northern France. Four saints standing in niches were painted on the exterior of the altarpiece’s wings. When the...
Size: 
Panel: 117 × 50.7 cm; Painted Surface: 115.5 × 49.6 cm
Medium: 
Oil on panel
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago