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Donor portraits Ch. 20 Northern Europe 1400-1600
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Donor portrait- a portrait of individual(s) who commissioned (donated) a religious work, for example, an altarpiece, as evidence of devotion. Patron- the person or entity that pays an artist to produce individual artworks or employs an artist on a continuing basis.
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Figure 20-4 ROBERT CAMPIN (MASTER OF FLEMALLE), Merode Altarpiece (open), ca. 1425-1428. Oil on wood, center panel 2’ 1 3/8” X 2’ 7/8”, each wing 2’ 1 3/8” X 10 7/8”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (The Cloisters Collection, 1956).
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Peter Inghelbrecht- wealthy merchant Inghelbrecht-angel bringer wife-Scrynmakers-cabinet, shrine makers household altar
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Figure 20-5 JAN VAN EYCK, Ghent Altarpiece (closed), Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, completed 1432. Oil on wood, 11’ 6" X 7’ 6".
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Jodocus Vyd- diplomat for Philip the Good Isabel Borluut- wife Jan Van Eyck was Philip the Good’s court painter
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Figure 20-12 DIRK BOUTS, Last Supper central panel of the Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament, Saint Peter’s, Louvain, Belgium, 1464–1468. Oil on wood, 6’ X 5’.
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Four servants-Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament
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Figure 20-13 HUGO VAN DER GOES, Portinari Altarpiece (open), from Sant’Egidio, Florence, Italy, ca. 1476. Tempera and oil on wood, 8’ 3 1/2" X 10’ center panel, 8’ 3 1/2" X 4’ 7 1/2" (each wing). Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
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Tommaso Portinari- an Italian shipowner and agent for the Medici family
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Figure 20-13 HUGO VAN DER GOES, Portinari Altarpiece (open), from Sant’Egidio, Florence, Italy, ca. 1476. Tempera and oil on wood, 8’ 3 1/2" X 10’ center panel, 8’ 3 1/2" X 4’ 7 1/2" (each wing). Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
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Portinari’s wife and daughter
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Figure 20-14 HANS MEMLING, Virgin with Saints and Angels, center panel of the Saint John Altarpiece, Hospitaal Sint Jan, Bruges, Belgium, 1479. Oil on wood, 5’ 7 3/4" X 5’ 7 3/4" (center panel), 5’ 7 3/4" X 2’ 7 1/8" (each wing).
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Two brothers and sisters of the order of the Hospital of St John in Bruges. They appear on the outside side panels.
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Figure 20-15 LIMBOURG BROTHERS (POL, JEAN, HERMAN), January, from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413–1416. Ink on vellum, approx. 8 7/8" X 5 3/8". Musée Condé, Chantilly.
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Duke of Berry- avid art collector
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Figure 20-17 JEAN FOUQUET, Melun Diptych. Étienne Chevalier and Saint Stephen, (left wing), ca. 1450. Oil on wood, 3’ 1/2” X 2’ 9 1/2”. Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
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Etienne Chevalier- Charles VII’s treasurer French
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