| Part of a predella showing the half figures of St Quirinus of Neuss and Bernard, painted c 1480 by Derick Baegert. Bernard, in a greyish brown cowl and carrying a crozier under the left arm while holding an open book with red binding from which he is reading with both hands. He is identified by the inscription 'S bernardus abbas' within his halo. A further fragment from the same predella, now in the Museum fuer Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund, Schloss Cappenberg, features Saints Cornelius, Hubert, and Anthony the Hermit, who, with Quirinus, since the thirteenth century were known in the Cologne and Trier regions as the 'four marshals'. The addition of Bernard suggests that the predella was from a Cistercian church.
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