Hulin de Loo, Georges: Early Flemish paintings in the Renders Collection at Bruges: exhibited at the Belgian Exhibition, Burlington House, January 1927 (London, 1927)

FRANCO ' FLEMISH MASTER WORKING FOR THE
DUKE OF BERRY ABOUT 1400. ft CRUCIFIXION.

Oa\ panel . 27 centimeters high by 18 centimeters wide.

LTHOUGH it dates from about the same period as the


preceding picture, this Crucifixion shows a very different

tendency. We had just now a typical specimen produced
by a very immature but already individual school; here we see,
doubtless executed by a Franco - Flemish painter of the very
early years of the 15th. century, the replica of a work by
Duccio already nearly a century old. Here the point of
interest lies neither in the conception nor in the composition :
in this painting they are not the painter’s own : what is new
is the fact that a notable picture by the great artist who, in
Siena, inaugurated the Italian trecento, was appreciated and
imitated in Flanders, or at any rate in a milieu in which
ft If indeed we study the central part of the great polyptych
at Siena, we notice immediately that our unknown painter
must, in a great measure, have been inspired by it. He must
have known either the work itself, or as we ourselves think -