Gonçal Peris and workshop (Documented in Valencia between 1380 - 1451)

Gonçal Peris and workshop (Documented in Valencia between 1380 - 1451)
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"The Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter". Circa 1430 - 1435.
Tempera and gold on panel. 74 x 58 cm. It may originally have been from the Saint Peter altarpiece at the Sueca Parish Church in Valencia.
Gonçal Peris is one of the most important figures of Valencian gothic painting of the first half of the 15th century. He trained in Pere Nicolau´s workshop, and started his own soon afterwards, one of his first commissions being the Saint Martha and Saint Clement altarpiece, painted in 1412 for the Bishop of Barcelona, Francesc Climent Sapera, for the Cathedral of Valencia.
His work also includes the altarpiece of Saint Martin, Saint Ursula and Saint Anthony, kept at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia; the Saint Barbara altarpiece which came from Puertomingalvo, and is now in the MNAC in Barcelona; Saint Dominic of Osma and Four Saints in the Prado; Pietà with the instruments of the Passion in the Louvre, etc.
This particular painting was published in “Retrotabulum Estudis d’Art Medieval”, in the article: “En torno al retablo de San Martín de Portaceli y sus autores: El Maestro de Martí de Torres y Gonçal Peris
Sarrià”, (About the altarpiece of Saint Martin of Portaceli and its painters: the Master of Martí de Torres and Gonçal Peris Sarrià) by José Gómez Frechina and Francesc Ruíz Quesada, on pages 13 and 15.
In this study, they note that it was Joan Aliaga who discovered that this panel, and one other, had been found at the sacristy of the Parish Church of Sueca, along with the four now well-known panels belonging to the Baron of Cárcer collection, which are also dedicated to the life of Saint Peter, and would have been the six lateral scenes in the former main gothic altarpiece.
The fact that scenes such as the conversion of Saint Peter or the Quo Vadis? or the crucifixion of the Apostle Saint have not been found, suggests to Frechina and Ruíz Quesada, that the altarpiece would have been made up of five sections, four lateral sections plus the central one. In their article they recreate a hypothesis of the altarpiece´s reconstruction with the six panels previously identified by Aliaga as being by Gonçal Perís and his workshop.