Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is an oil on panel painting from around 1435 by the Early Netherlandish master Jan van Eyck, now in the Musee du Louvre in Paris. It depicts the Virgin Mary presenting the infant Jesus to Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of the Duchy of Burgundy, who kneels opposite her in a votive portrait arrangement within an ornate loggia. Rolin, shown as an aged man of about sixty, commissioned the work for his parish church in Autun, where it remained until the church burned down in 1793, later passing through Autun Cathedral before reaching the Louvre in 1805. Behind the two figures a detailed landscape of Autun stretches into the distance, rendered under the same unified light as the foreground. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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dating from around 1435
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Oil on panel
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It is now in the Musee du Louvre, Paris.
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It was commissioned by Nicolas Rolin chancellor of the Duchy of Burgundy, then aged about 60, whose votive portrait takes up the left side of the picture, for his parish church, Notre-Dame-du-Chastel in Autun
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Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is an oil on panel painting from around 1435 by the Early Netherlandish master Jan van Eyck, now in the Musee du Louvre in Paris.
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The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, dating from around 1435. It is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. It was commissioned by Nicolas Rolin chancellor of the Duchy of
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The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, dating from around 1435. It is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. It was commissioned by Nicolas Rolin chancellor of the Duchy of
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