Two altar wings depicting a male donor with three sons and a female donor with two daughters, praying before a classical landscape

These two panels functioned as lateral wings of a now dismantled altarpiece. The missing central panel, depicting Mary of the Seven Sorrows, is documented in the photo-archive of M.J. Friedländer (fig. 1), who, on the reverse of a photograph, dated the triptych to 1564. A comparable triptych by Pourbus, dated 1556, is in the St. Jacob's church in Bruges; here also the central panel depicts Mary of the Seven Sorrows and lateral wings representing a male and a female donor with their family.