Van Eyck’s Madonna of Chancellor Rolin Restored and Exhibited at the Louvre

The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is Jan van Eyck’s only painting in France, a feat given that he only produced about 20. Most are in museums in Frankfurt, Berlin, Vienna, Dresden, Bruges, etc. or have remained in situ , like the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb altarpiece in Saint Bavo’s cathedral in Ghent. Six have traveled to the Louvre for the exhibition organized around The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin , including the Lucca Madonna , which has never left Frankfurt’s Städel Museum until now. “We’ve never seen so many van Eycks in France,” says exhibition curator Sophie Caron, who carried out an in-depth study of the 66-by-62 cm/25.98-by-24.40 in painting on wood. Set among works by his contemporaries van der Weyden, Campin and Bosch,…