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Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon
Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon (or Portrait of a Man with a Blue Hood, earlier Portrait of a Jeweler or Man with a Ring) is a very small (22.5 cm x 16.6 cm with frame) oil on panel portrait of an unidentified man attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. 
The painting was commissioned and completed sometime around 1430. It contains a number of elements typical of van Eyck's secular portraits, including a slightly oversized head
From surviving copies it can be deduced that apart from the actual oak frame there were two other 'painted on' frames, one of which was lettered with gothic inscription to the top, while a faux stone parapet provided support for her hands to rest upon.
Van Eyck painted a second portrait during his visit to Portugal, his 1428 "Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon". Art historians tend to look to this work to deduce how the Isabella portrait may have looked. The "Blue Hood"