Jabach Altarpiece

The Jabach Altarpiece comprises two pairs of oil on lime tree panel paintings by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, executed around 1503–1504. Originally a triptych, the central panels are lost. Only the outer and inner side panels are now preserved: the left picture with Job and His Wife, measuring 96 × 51.5 cm, is housed in the Städel of Frankfurt; the picture of the Piper and a Drummer on the right, measuring 94 x 57 cm, is housed in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum of Cologne. These two certain paintings of the Jabach Altarpiece form a single image on the external shutters once closed. The two share a common background, and the dress of Job's wife continues to the right panel as well.

The two pairs of Apostles on gilded background now at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich –Sts. Joseph and Joachim (96 × 54 cm), and Sts. Simon and Lazarus (97 × 55 cm)– have been commonly associated with the polyptych. They are supposedly the panels on the inside of the wings.