Description

Gothic; 1466; painted on panel; author un­known; Baby Jesus holds a sash with an inscrip­tion: Sum quo eram, eram quo sum. Nunc dico utrumque. Anno LXVI; the oldest work of panel painting in Gdańsk; coats of arms below: King­dom of Holland, city of Amsterdam, Zeeland and city of Gdańsk; the painting was presumably meant as a votive offering, founded by a Dutch fraternity of merchants who owned an altar in St Nicholas' church until 1492.