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This panel is the right wing of a portable triptych showing the Coronation of the Virgin and six saints. The left wing (also in the Metropolitan Museum) depicts three scenes from the life of the Virgin: the Annunciation, the Nativity combined with the washing of the infant Christ and the Annunciation to the Shepherds, and the Adoration of the Magi. The saints are Sts John the Baptist, Stephen (or Lawrence), and Peter, and Sts Mary Magdalen, Catherine of Alexandria, and an unidentified female saint. They would have been chosen by the person for whom the triptych was painted. The centre panel of the triptych, probably depicting a Madonna and Child, is not identified.
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