The Belgian galleries : being a history of the Flemish school of painting, illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in Bruges, Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels and other Belgian cities (1912)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · Boston : St. Botolph Society · leaf 180
sed. John van Eyck reached the end of hiscareer without any failing, or the slightest diminu-tion of his genius, and I imagine that he proudlydedicated this marvellous ex-voto to his youngcompanion; and that it was with legitimate pridethat he could inscribe on it his device: Als ikkan. 1 A Head of… … Plate xvm(See page 120) Bruges 129 Moreel for an altar-piece for the chantry chapel hegave to the Church of St. Jacques in Bruges. In the centre is seen Saint Christopher bearingthe Infant Christ on his shoulder across a river.He supports himself with the trunk of a young tree,and is looking up…
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