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Portrait of a Man
Jan van Eyck
1433
Oil on panel, 25.7 x 19 cm (with original frame 33.3 x 25.8 cm)
London, National Gallery
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| | | Full title: 'Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)'
Inscribed, signed and dated on the original frame:
Top: .A_C . IXH . XAN. (ALS ICH CAN; As I can)
Bottom:. JO[ANN]ES . DE. EYCK . ME . FECIT. AN[N]O . MCCCC . 33. 2. OCTOBRIS. (Jan van Eyck made me on 21 October 1433.)
Portraits of the Dutch painter Jan Van Eyck are one of the fist portraits where the sitter looks directly at the viewer. In this way a completely different communication with the observer is made, for he is directly addressed by the 'image'. The viewer becomes a part of the story and not merely it's observer as he is with other three-quarter profile portraits of the northern-Renaissance art until Van Eyck.
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