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EYCK, Jan van: Portrait of a Goldsmith (Man with Ring)

🖼 Portrait of a Goldsmith (Man with Ring), c. 1430
Wood (without frame)
16.6 × 13.2 cm
Bucharest, Romania

Piercing gaze and meticulously rendered details—a jeweler displays his ring with quiet pride, captured in luminous oil paint. Van Eyck's revolutionary technique and merchant portrait established new Flemish standards for psychological realism and bourgeois dignity in 1430s portraiture.

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