It was taken to France very early in its lifespan and formed a major influence on late medieval French artists.

It is now split between the Louvre in Paris, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp and the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.

[1] On the back of the Louvre panel (Christ Bearing the Cross) is the coat of arms of the Orsini family.

Some art historians see this as a portrait of the Roman cardinal Napoleone Orsini, who owned a fragment of the True Cross, which may explain the choice of subject.

On the reverse of one of the outer panels, Christ Bearing the Cross, is the coat of arms of the Orsini family.