Oil and tempera on board framed in a wooden and methacrylate urn board only measurements 108 x 38 cm framed measurements 125 x 56 cm Extraordinary discovery of this Medieval master from Lleida sometimes confused with the Master of Cervera and with very little documented work both in institutions and in the hands of private collectors Masterful oil and tempera gilded with gold leaf on panel The works of the medieval painter Joan de Rua Tarragona y Lerida identified with the socalled Master of Cervera Born in Montblanch on September 15 1483 he signed the contract for the execution of the altarpiece of Sant Miquel de Verdu currently in the Episcopal Museum of Vic The location of this contract has allowed Joan de Rua to be attributed an important group of late Gothic paintings Catalan works that had been grouped around the figure of an anonymous Master of Cervera for the altarpiece of the Custodian Angel of Santa Maria de Cervera a group to which the panels of the altarpiece of San Eloy and saints Abdon and Senen in the church of San Miguel de Montblanch preserved in the Diocesan Museum of Tarragona or the altarpiece of the Virgin of the Lily of Vilanova de Bellpuig It is also documented in 1496 in the polychrome of some tabernacles in the royal pantheon of the Poblet monastery Provenance previously in an important private collection in Barcelona