- Title:
- A Woman
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Early Netherlandish
- Brief description:
- This striking portrait of a woman forms a pair with Campin's portrait A Man: the sitters were clearly married. We don't know who they were, but their clothes suggest they were prosperous townsfolk, perhaps from Tournai where Campin lived and worked.Campin has conveyed their personalities and relationship as well as what they looked like. The woman appears younger than her husband, and more forceful and optimistic. Campin has placed her near eye in the centre of her panel so that she dominates the composition in a way her husband does not. Her skin is smooth, and her bright, wide-open eyes curve up at the corners, a movement echoed and amplified by the crisp folds of her headdress.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1860-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1860
- Date - latest:
- 1860
- Credit line:
- Bought, 1860
- Current location:
- Room 52
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/631/945/971/mid_N-0653-02-000035.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 40.60
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 28.10
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil on wood
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- Baltic/Polish oak
- Object name:
- Picture; Early Netherlandish
- Object production date:
- about 1435
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1435
- Date - latest:
- 1435
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1400-49
- Object production person:
- Robert Campin
- Person's birth date:
- 1378
- Person's death date:
- 1444
- Object production place:
- Netherlands
- Other number:
- NG653.2
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0EXH-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG653.2
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- NG653.2
- Other number type:
- Previous Object Number
- Other number:
- NG653b
- Other number type:
- Previous Object Number
- Other number:
- 000-03SQ-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng2653.02
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- bust portraits
- Style:
- female portraits
- Style:
- Gothic
- Style:
- early Renaissance
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: Early Netherlandish School
- Reference details:
- 21
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Early Netherlandish School
- Reference details:
- 27-8
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- Previous catalogues
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- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
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- 84
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
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- National Gallery Catalogues: The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings
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- 72-9
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- National Gallery Catalogues: Early Netherlandish School
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- 18
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- Die Erfindung des Gemäldes: Das erste Jahrhundert der niederländischen Malerei
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- 1.49-52
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- Der Meister von Flémalle: Die Werkstatt Robert Campins und Rogier van der Weyden
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- Van Eyck and the Founders of Early Netherlandish Painting
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- Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character
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- La solution du problème van der Weyden-Flémalle-Campin
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- The Flemish Primitives: Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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- 2.187 n. 19
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- Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery
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- National Gallery Notes, III: Netherlandish Primitives: Rogier van der Weyden and Robert Campin
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- Campin in context : peinture et société dans la vallée de l'Escaut à l'époque de Robert Campin, 1375-1445 /sous la direction de Ludovic Nys et Dominique Vanwijnsberghe ; avec la collaboration de Xavier Fontaine et Jacques Debergh.
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