From the main chapel of the parish church of Calheta. After Calheta was raised to the status of village in 1502, improvement works must have been done on the church.
The most recent interpretation places the scene of the Annunciation on the reverse sides, due to the spatial continuity shown. Thus, the open set would have on each obverse side, St. Francis and St. Anthony, which would close on a central structure, either sculpted or painted, which is no longer in existence. It is not improbable that it was a mixed retable, seeing that by coincidence there still exists at Estreito da Calheta a retable structure in the Chapel of the Kings, imported from Flanders in the first quarter of the 16th century. The set may have had as the main panel a Pentecost, seeing that the invocation of the Church was of the Holy Spirit.
On the reverse sides we find the scene of the Annunciation, with the Virgin and the Archangel St. Gabriel. Mary is holding a closed book, but marked with her fingers, which according to tradition was the prophecy of Isaiah, while Gabriel, holding the sceptre in his left hand, points to heaven with his right hand, in a gesture of blessing and announces the carrying out of the divine work. The Archangel is wearing a magnificent embroidered cope. The cope is closed with an elaborately designed brooch.
On the obverse sides, St. Francis is represented with his wounds and the crucifix, as well as the seraph that wounded him. St. Anthony offers with his right hand the Child seated on the Book, holding a white lily, and displaying in his left hand a most beautiful cross in goldsmithery.
Since 1955, these wings have been attributed to Jan Provoost¹. The painter settled in Bruges in 1494, and died there in 1529. His only documented work is The Final Judgement, of 1525, today in the Groninger Museum in Bruges. A triptych that is today in the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon and belonged to the Misericórdia of Funchal, was also attributed to Jan Provoost. The wings of Calheta must therefore be dated from the last decade of the painter's work.

¹ Arte Flamenga, Museu de Arte Sacra do Funchal, Luiza Clode e Fernando António Baptista Pereira, EDICARTE, 1997, p. 88.