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Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy

🎨 Painting by Jan van Eyck
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Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy is a small oil-on panel portrait by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, completed c. 1435. It shows Baldwin of Lannoy, a contemporary Flemish statesman and ambassador for Philip the Good at the court of Henry V of England.

From surviving documents it is known that the work was commissioned to mark his entry into the order Baudouin de Lanno. The man is shown in a formal pose, holding a wooden stick in his right hand, and a gold ring on his little finger. Van Eyck's surviving early portraits typically show the sitter holding an emblem of his profession and class.

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