Episode 15 - An Elaborated Sketch
Workshop of Robert Campin, Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), ca. 1427–32
Oil on oak, overall (open): 25 3/8 x 46 3/8 in. (64.5 x 117.8 cm)
The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Thickness the of the ground and the barbes
Rogier van der Weyden, The Miraflores Altarpiece (detail), c. 1442
Oil on panel, 28 x 17 in (71 x 43 cm)
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Juan de Flandes, Copy after Rogier van der Weyden
Christ Appearing to His Mother, c. 1496
Oil on wood, 25 x 15 in (63.5 x 38.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, c 1435 – 40
Oil and tempera on panel, 54 1/8 x 43 5/8 in (137.5 x 110.8 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Circle of Rogier van der Weyden, possibly Vranke van der Stockt, Men Shoveling Chairs (Scupstoel), 1444–50
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk., 11 13/16 x 16 3/4 in. (30.0 x 42.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gerard David, Studies of ten (?) heads and two ears (recto); Studies of three figures and a head (verso), c 1498
Metalpoint on prepared paper; verso: black chalk, 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (13.3 x 9.5 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Jan van Eyck, Portrait of a Man (Cardinal Niccolò Albergati?) c 1438
Oil on oak, 13 ½ x 11 ½ in (34 x 29.5 cm)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Jan van Eyck, Portrait of a Man (Cardinal Niccolò Albergati?) c 1438
Silverpoint on prepared paper, 8 ½ x 7 in (21.4 x 18 cm)
Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden
Infrared reflectography of the Miraflores Altarpiece in November 1982.
From left to right: J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer, J. P. Filedt Kok, R. Grosshans and G. Schultz.
J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer, J. Dijkstra, R. van Schoute, C.M.A. Dalderup and J.P. Filedt Kok, “Underdrawing in Paintings of the Rogier Van Der Weyden and Master of Flémalle Groups,” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 1990, Fig. 288
Juan de Flandes, Copy after Rogier van der Weyden, Christ Appearing to His Mother, c. 1496
Infrared reflectogram
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rogier van der Weyden, The Miraflores Altarpiece (detail), c. 1442
Oil on panel, 28 x 17 in (71 x 43 cm)
Infrared Reflectogram
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Juan de Flandes, Copy after Rogier van der Weyden
Christ Appearing to His Mother, c. 1496
Oil on wood, 25 x 15 in (63.5 x 38.1 cm)
Infrared Reflectogram
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Robert Campin or Jacques Daret, The Annunciation, c. 1420
Tempera (?) on oak, 24 x 25 in (61 x 63.7 cm)
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece),
Central panel: 25 1/4 x 24 7/8 in. (64.1 x 63.2 cm)
Robert Campin or Jacques Daret, The Annunciation, c. 1420
Tempera (?) on oak, 24 x 25 in (61 x 63.7 cm)
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Detail
Infrared Reflectogram and Normal Photograph
Robert Campin or Jacques Daret, The Annunciation
Detail
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Detail
Infrared Reflectogram and Normal Photograph
Recommended Reading
J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer, J. Dijkstra, R. van Schoute, C.M.A. Dalderup and J.P. Filedt Kok, “Underdrawing in Paintings of the Rogier Van Der Weyden and Master of Flémalle Groups,” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 1990
Molly Faries, “In Memoriam: J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer (1935–2020)” Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter, Published on August 5, 2020
https://hnanews.org/in-memoriam-j-r-j-van-asperen-de-boer-1935-2020/
Ester S.B. Ferreira, Rachel Morrison and Jaap J. Boon, "Imagining Chemical Characterisation of Preparatory Layers in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Norther European Panel Paintings," Preparation for Painting, The Artist's Choice and Its Consequences, ed Joyce H. Townsend et al, 2008
How Chalk Drawings Art Made
How Metalpoint Drawings Are Made
How Ink Drawings Are Made