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Portrait of Antoine, 'Grand Bâtard' of Burgundy

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In his later commissioned portraits, van der Weyden typically flattered his sitters. He often idealised or softened their facial features, allowing them a handsomeness or beauty, interest or intelligence they might not have been blessed with in life. If this portrait is compared to the unromantic
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The physical dissimilarities from other portraits of Anthony of Burgundy have made some critics tentatively identify the sitter of this portrait as
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when an arrow pierced his heart (thus providing a plausible explanation for the meaning of the arrow held by the sitter).
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and one of his mistresses, Jeanne de Presle. The panel is dated to about 1460 and held in the
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It is one of three high-profile van der Weyden portraits commissioned by the
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Jean Wauquelin presenting his 'Chroniques de Hainaut' to Philip the Good
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around 1460. The other two are his portraits of Philip the Good and
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who was sent into exile in Burgundy after his father
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Diptych of Philip de Croÿ with The Virgin and Child
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Rogier van der Weyden
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
panel painting
Netherlandish
Rogier van der Weyden
Anthony of Burgundy
Philip the Good
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Dukes of Burgundy
Charles the Bold
Order of the Golden Fleece
Jason
Gideon
Hans Memling
John of Coimbra, Prince of Antioch
Golden Fleece
Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra
Battle of Alfarrobeira
List of works by Rogier van der Weyden
"Dom João de Coimbra, Retrato por Rogier van der Weyden"
ISBN
0-521-38296-3
Campbell, Lorne
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Rogier van der Weyden

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