Left wing of the diptych depicts Etienne Chevalier with his patron saint St. Stephen; Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels, Right wing of the diptych.

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The Melun Diptych is a two panel oil painting by the French court painter Jean Fouquet (1425-1480) created around 1452. The name of the diptych came from its original home in the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame in Melun. The left panel depicts the patron Etienne Chevalier with St. Stephen and the right panel depicts the Virgin and Christ child surrounded by cherubim. Each wooden panel measures about 93 by 85 centimeters and the two would have been hinged together at the center. The two pieces, originally a diptych, are now separated.

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