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Portrait of Margareta van Eyck
Jan van Eyck
1439
Oil on panel, 32.6 x 25.8 cm (with original frame 41.2 x 34.6 cm)
Bruges, Groeningemuseum
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| | | The panel incorporates the mock-chiselled 'speaking' inscription: (translated) My husband Johannes finished painting me in the year 1439 on 15 June / my age was thirty-three. This is followed by the artist's own motto in Greek characters: als ikh kan.
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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