Jabach Altarpiece

The Jabach Altarpiece is attributed to the German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer, painted around 1503 to 1504. Dürer is one of the most celebrated figures of Northern Renaissance art, renowned for his engravings, woodcuts, and paintings.

The surviving components of the altarpiece are dispersed across multiple collections, with panels held by the Städel Museum in Frankfurt and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne. The dispersal reflects the altarpiece's complex later history after it left its original church setting.

Everhard Jabach was a prominent 17th-century Cologne-based banker and art collector who assembled one of the most significant private collections of his era. The altarpiece was named for him because the panels passed through his collection, even though the work itself was painted over a century before Jabach's time.

The surviving panels are oil on wood, consistent with Dürer's practice in his panel paintings of this period. The altarpiece was originally a multi-panel work, of which only certain components have survived to the present day.