The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin
c. 1435 · Oil on panel · Musée du Louvre, Paris
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Jan van Eyck (c. 1390–1441)
- Year
- c. 1435
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Original size
- 66 × 62 cm
- Collection
- Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Movement
- Northern Renaissance
Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of the Duchy of Burgundy, kneels in a fur-trimmed brocade robe at a prayer desk, facing the Virgin, who presents the Christ Child as an angel holds a jewelled crown over her head; behind them a loggia of columns and carved reliefs opens onto a walled garden of lilies, irises and roses and a minutely painted city on a river, with hazy mountains beyond. Jan van Eyck painted it in about 1435, when Rolin was around sixty, for his parish church of Notre-Dame-du-Chastel in Autun, and the city in the background is probably meant to suggest Autun. Two small men look out over a parapet into the view, and the bridge, boats and passers-by are rendered in tiny detail under an even light. The picture remained in the church until it burned in 1793, spent a period in Autun Cathedral and came to the Louvre in 1805. A conservation treatment led to an exhibition devoted to it at the Louvre in 2024.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A kneeling chancellor in brocade before the Virgin in red, a jewelled crown and a far river city through three arches, for a living room, study or dining room at 24×36 in black. A deep red, stone or warm white wall; it pairs with The Arnolfini Portrait.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Northern Renaissance painting
- Era
- 15th century (c. 1435)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- grand
- Rooms
- living room, dining room, study or library, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
