9. 9W Retable en bois sculpté peint polychrome représentant la Passion du Christ, les scènes de la Vie du Christ, Flandres ou Allemagne du sud, début du XVIe siècle A parcel-gilt and polychrome altarpiece depicting the The Passion of Christ, Flemish or South German, early 16th century The Crucifixion carved in high relief from several blocks of wood; the central section depicting the Crucifixion and the Entombment, the left panel showing Christ in the Garden of Olives and the Carrying of the Cross, the right panel showing the Descent into Limbo and the Resurrection, the upper register with an openwork frieze of tracery and the lower register with a frieze decorated with fleurons. The outer panels are probably painted with a scene of Noli me tangere (Do not touch me), the words spoken by the risen Jesus who appears to Mary Magdalene on Easter Sunday, restorations, polychrome decoration refreshed, 62cm wide, 14cm deep, 129cm high (24in wide, 5 1/2in deep, 50 1/2in high), altarpiece opened 128cm wide, (50in wide). Provenance: Sale, Enghien-Les-Bains, Maîtres Goxe et Belaisch, 18 December 2016, lot 200 See A. Huysmans ed., La sculpture des Pays-bas méridionaux et de la Principauté de Liège XVe et XVIe siècles, 1999, for comparable pieces. Many altarpieces were dismantled and sometimes destroyed during the iconoclastic revolutions, the dissolution of monasteries and wars, and the present altarpiece is a rare example of a domestic altarpiece, complete with all the shutters that were used to conceal it at certain times of the liturgical year.