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This is a painting that no longer exists in one piece. Dürer made it around 1504 as a folding altarpiece, probably for Frederick the Wise, the Elector of Saxony, for his castle chapel at Wittenberg, and possibly in thanks that a plague had just lifted. Over the centuries it was taken apart and sold off, and today its wings hang in three different cities. In Frankfurt you can find Job seated on a dunghill while his wife pours water over his sores. In Cologne, beside that scene, two musicians play a pipe and drum to soothe his suffering, and the piper is often thought to carry Dürer's own features. Munich keeps the outer panels, four apostles standing on grounds of gold. The central image they once framed is simply gone, lost with no record of what it showed.