Pair of portraits of of Jean Godin and Jeanne de Salembiens
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Original location | Valenciennes or Cambrai? (where Jean Godin probably lived) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Current location | Private collection | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Artist | Anonymous | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | Possibly a copy of a portrait made after 1503 (year of pilgrimage), but probably much younger (see remarks) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Material | Oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | 56 x 42 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Short description | Pair of portraits of a man and a woman, displayed half-length, facing each other. The man is depicted on the left panel and carries the signs of the Jerusalem pilgrimage. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Depicted pilgrim | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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General remarks | These two portraits are part of an Ahnengalerie, a series of portraits of a family's ancestors, made at a far later date (possibly seventeenth or eighteenth century). It might have been a copy after an older original from Jacques's own time, but it is very likely that this portrait was invented. This is corroborated by the white cloak with a red Jerusalem cross worn by the sitter, which resembles the cloak worn by the members of the modern Order of the Holy Sepulchre (revived in 1847), but is not known from any other sixteenth-century depiction of a knight of the Holy Sepulchre. The same goes for the pair of portraits of Jacques Godin (Jean's son) and Catharine le Comte. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Internet links | Descriptions of the RKD: Jean Godin Jeanne de Salembiens |