The Presentation in the Temple, with the Virgin Mary presenting the infant Christ to a temple elder, painted and gilded by Melchior Broederlam, 1350-1409, on the back of the wings of the Crucifixion Altarpiece, 1390-99, originally in the Chartreuse de Champmol, in the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, opened 1787 in the Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy in Dijon, Burgundy, France. The altarpiece was commissioned in 1390 and installed in 1399 in the Chapel of the Duc de Berry at Champmol. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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