Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy [SEP] creator
Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy
Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy is a small oil-on panel portrait by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, completed c. 1435. It shows Baldwin of Lannoy, a contemporary Flemish statesman and ambassador for Philip the Good at the court of Henry V of England. From surviving documents it is known that the work was commissioned to mark his entry into the order "Baudouin de Lanno". He is in a formal pose, holding a wooden stick in his right hand, and a gold
established that the board was cut from the same tree as the wood of two known panels by van Eyck, the "Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy" (c. 1435) and "Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini" (1438). These have tree-rings that developed between 1205 and 1383, and 1206 and 1382, respectively. Examination of the sapwood suggests a felling date of around 1392. Assuming a typical 10 years of seasoning before use, any of the paintings could have begun from around 1408 onwards.