Heilwich van der Rullen and Her Daughters with Saint Mary Magdalen (outer face); Hendrixke van Langhel and Her Deceased Child with Saint Catherine (inner face)

The small figure at Hendrixke van Langel's feet is the reason this altarpiece was made. The museum's title calls it her deceased child. Around 1500 Hendrixke, the young wife of the town secretary Peter van Os, gave birth to a child who died at once or very soon after, and before long she was dead as well. Reading the town records, the historian G. C. M. van Dijck concluded that her husband commissioned the altarpiece in her memory and the child's, and in memory of her family.

She kneels under Saint Catherine, with the wheel and the sword. No Saint Hendrica was known, so she took a patron she favoured instead.

Close the wing and the outside shows her mother, Heilwich van der Rullen, with her daughters kneeling behind her. One of them, Lysbeth, was a nun in the convent of Bethany in 's-Hertogenbosch, and the saint standing over the group is the convent's patron, Mary Magdalen. Van Dijck took the young woman directly behind the nun to be Hendrixke again, painted a second time among her sisters.