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EYCK, Jan van: Portrait of Margaret van Eyck

🖼 Portrait of Margaret van Eyck, 1439
Oil on wood
32.6 × 25.8 cm
Brugge, Belgium

Soft brushwork captures the artist's wife in three-quarter view, her delicate features rendered with jeweler's precision against a dark ground. This intimate domestic portrait pioneered Northern Renaissance portraiture, establishing the psychological depth and technical mastery that defined Flemish painting's revolutionary impact on European art.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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