The two portraits in the Brukenthal Art Gallery are companion pieces, depicting a middle-aged couple in three-quarter view presentation, in a manner typical of the Flemish school. The two sitters were identified
as the donors Pieter Bultynck and Katharina van Riebeke of Memling’s painting, The Seven Joys of the Virgin, in the possession of the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. The above mentioned religious painting was probably
donated on an important date in the life of the two, their engagement or their marriage, for their names are engraved on the original silver frame of the painting, as was the custom with the name of donors.
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