Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon is a very small oil on panel portrait of an unidentified man attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck.
Jan van Eyck Man in a Blue Cap
Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?), 25.5 x 19cm, 1433. National Gallery, London
The portrait on a 1966 Romanian postage stamp
Léal Souvenir
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Léal Souvenir is a small oil-on-oak panel portrait by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, dated 1432. The sitter has not been identified, but his distinctive features suggest a historical pe
Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon
…like Georges Hulin de Loo, was convinced that it was a van Eyck; among other factors he saw a lot of similarity with the signed and dated London Léal Souvenir of c. 1432. Friedländer strongly and at length refuted claims by German art historian Karl Voll that the panel was completed in the 1490s by a follower…
Eyck, Jan van Portrait of a Young Man National Gallery, London
Tombstone of the soldier Tiberius Julius Pancuius. See also Fayum mummy portraits.
Copy of Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of Philip the Good, c. 1445. Here, Philip is captured in a similar but inverted pose. As in van Eyck's panel, the scroll is inscribed on the outside with fictive writing.
Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy, c. 1435. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Van Eyck's early portraits typically show the sitter holding an emblem of his profession and class.