Episode 18 - Gold again

Rogier van der Weyden, Virgin and Child, 1460

Huntington Library, San Marino, California

Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of Philippe I de Croy, 1460

Oil on oak, 19 ¼ x 11 ¾ in (49 cm × 30 cm)

Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

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

Marika Spring, “New insights . . ," Fig 1b

paint cross-section from the man’s plum-coloured robe

Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Marriage, 1434

Oil on oak, 32 14 x 23 1/2 in (82.2 x 60 cm)

National Gallery, London