D'après Luis BOROSSA (Gérone ( ?) vers 1360 - Barcelone vers 1426)
Saint Hippolytus is fixing the leg of the shepherd Peter at the request of the Virgin Mary, with the Child Jesus and four angels. (Jacques de Voragine, The Golden Legend, Saint Hippolytus and his companions).
Oil on panel. Lining (trace of vertical crack in the upper left)
Aureoles and crowns in gilded half-relief. Ornamental motifs engraved in the upper spandrels.
101 x 93 cm. - Depth : 3 cm.
Cracks.
Copy of the composition by Luis Borrosa (1419-1421) formerly conserved in the Chapel of Saint Lawrence (San Lorenzo) in the cathedral of Barcelona, during the canonization of Ferrer Despujol, and since deposited in Madrid at the Prado Museum (Cf. Pintura espanola del Romanico al Renacimiento, n° 4, p.24 - Prado 2010).
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