Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, kneels at a prayer desk facing the Virgin and Child as an angel lowers a crown onto her head. Beyond the columned loggia, a river city stretches toward blue mountains in minute detail. Painted for Rolin's parish church in Autun, it shows the chancellor, unusually, at the same scale as the Virgin.
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On the battlements beyond the garden, two tiny men look out over the river. The one in the red hat may be van Eyck himself.
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