Triptych of the Martyrdom of St Hippolytus

Dieric Bouts (Netherlandish, c. 1415–1475) and Hugo van der Goes (Netherlandish, c. 1440–1482)

Held by St Salvator's Cathedral, Bruges (in situ), S.S.004

Sizes

Wall left 18×24 in + centre 24×36 in + right 18×24 in $399 · $470 bought separately · the painted images hang level

One object, sold whole, as St Salvator's Cathedral, Bruges shows it. 3 sheets, one edition, $399 — the printed panels hang level within 0.0%.

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Four horses pull four ways, and a rope runs from each to a man's wrist or ankle. Jos Koldeweij describes each horse facing one corner, its rider apparently just given the signal. The man in the middle is Saint Hippolytus, and Koldeweij observes that he was given the features of Hippolyte de Berthoz, who ordered the triptych, so that patron and namesake share one body. On the left wing, whose completion with the donors' portraits Koldeweij attributes to Hugo van der Goes, De Berthoz and his wife, Elisabeth Hugheins, kneel with joined hands before a moated country house. Dieric Bouts painted the martyrdom about 1470-75, and Van der Goes finished the work about 1475-79. In Koldeweij's reading the patron kneels quietly in one field and is pulled four ways in the next.

The panels hang in a row at one image height; the hung images measure about 44.4 in across, before any gap between frames.

Provenance of the files
Held by	St Salvator's Cathedral, Bruges (in situ) · S.S.004 the museum’s record
Source file	Wikimedia Commons · Dieric Bouts & Hugo van der Goes - Triptiek van de Heilige Hippolytus.jpg
Licence	Public domain
Panel · left	Triptych of the Martyrdom of St Hippolytus (left wing) — 1,878 × 4,316 px
Panel · centre	Triptych of the Martyrdom of St Hippolytus (centre panel) — 4,245 × 4,278 px
Panel · right	Triptych of the Martyrdom of St Hippolytus (right wing) — 1,830 × 4,309 px
Chain	Each panel taken from the source file above and cut to its own painted field; held as 3 print masters.

Sources

Jos Koldeweij, 'Hippolyte de Berthoz by Dirk Bouts and Hugo van der Goes: A Patron as Martyr', in Example or Alter Ego? (Nijmeegse Kunsthistorische Studies XXII), Turnhout 2016, 131-143, read 2026-09-24

Printed on demand as one edition. The whole image is printed on every sheet — never cropped to fit — so each panel carries an archival margin.