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The angels play instruments that look like shawms, a Renaissance forerunner of the oboe. The symbols on the scroll held by the two lower angels are not real musical notation and were never readable. On the back, a Gothic stone canopy is painted in grisaille (shades of black, white and grey).
When the wings of the altarpiece were closed, this panel and its twin, The Soul of Saint Bertin carried up to God, would have covered the gilded silver Crucifixion in the centre of the altarpiece.
Title
A Choir of Angels: From Left Hand Shutter
Date
about 1459
Medium
Oil on oak
Measurements
H 57.6 x W 20.9 cm
Accession number
NG1303
Acquisition method
Bought, 1860
Work type
Painting
