During the last restauration was the priest-donor made visible on the foreground. (Book: Jheronimus Bosch. Alle schilderijen en tekeningen, 2001 van Jos Koldeweij, Paul Vandenbroeck and Bernard Vermet).
In addition to the compositional and stylistic similarities with The Wedding at Cana, which alone has been preserved as a copy, it also corresponds to two well preserved side panels as copy, which once Mary Altarpiece of the Lady of Brotherhood in the Sint Jan in 's-Hertogenbosch adorned with representations of Solomon and Bathsheba and David and Abigail. Because these shutters are also painted by the Brussels painter Gielis Panhedel are also copies this topic nowadays associated with this painter, which may have been a pupil of Bosch.
The composition is similar with paintings from Followers Jheronimus Bosch for example in Museum The Louvre in Paris, in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Damast- und Frottermuseum in Grosschonau, at Weinzheimer in Settignano (Florence) and a private collection in Enschede (The Netherlands)
Provenance:
1941 in possession of property to Morgan Library and Museum in New York and in that year signaled German (1920 – 1979) at art dealership in London
Maybe auctioned by Christies London on 6/7.6.1974 lot 205 from the private collection of Sir Samuel Gluckstein (substantially the same dimension (72.3 x 55.8) or Art Dealer W.E. Duits in London (71,2 x 55)
Opocno in Czechia is also known as a former residence from the painting 'Christ's dispute with the doctors in the temple'.