Crucifixion from Nové Sady (Master of the Rajhrad Altarpiece)

[2] There, the panel was discovered by Albert Kutal in 1935, and in 1935-1936 the Crucifixion was exhibited in Brno and in 1937 it was purchased for the State Collection of Old Art (now the National Gallery Prague).

Older expert opinions have described the paintings of the Rajhrad altarpiece as works based on the beautiful style and affected by Franco-flemish influences, manifested by an attempt to deepen the pictorial space or naturalistic details.

Otherwise, his work follows the late beautiful style of the first two decades of the 15th century, which combines traditional typification of figures and draperies with new tendencies that abandon the earlier formalism.

St Mary Magdalene, embracing the Cross of Christ, is the central figure and represents a contemporary departure from the Marian cult.

There are figures in the painting that are difficult to identify - a hooded old man at the foot of the cross on the right, a woman and child dressed as an altar boy on the left (donors or spectators?).

If, as M. Bartlová suggests, Ladislaus the Posthumous (the young fair-haired man on the right) and King George of Poděbrady (the face on the left) were depicted, then the dating of the painting would have to be much later.