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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

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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

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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

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/Collection-Areas/drawings-and-prints/materials-and-techniques/drawing/chalk

How Metalpoint Drawings Are Made

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/Collection-Areas/drawings-and-prints/materials-and-techniques/drawing/metalpoint

How Ink Drawings Are Made

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/Collection-Areas/drawings-and-prints/materials-and-techniques/drawing/ink

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