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the face, the lips - thinner near the edges -, the more widely-
slit eyes, the more strongly defined eyebrows, Mr. Hulin de
Loo has succeeded in placing this Virgin among the most recent
of those known at the present time, due to the brush of the
Master. This would bring us to about 1460, or very shortly
38 These deductions drawn from observations based on
Rogier’s workmanship and craft and on what, from his works,
is known of his evolution, exactly correspond to the historical
precisions given by the portrait of Jehan Gros which is painted
on the other wing. This remark is important for thus we see
one of the numerous points definitely fixed, on which the
present day theory of Rogier’s personality and activity is
based. Jehan Gros belonged to a well known family that
originated in Burgundy, and which gave to Philip the Good
and to Charles the Bold respected and honoured councillors;
he himself after having, in 1469, filled the offices of First
Secretary to the Duke and Auditor in Chancery, was, after
1472, Comptroller of Estates and Finances. He died at
Dijon in 1484. Basing ourselves on the age of his wife Guye
de Messey at the moment of their marriage (1472), and seeing
that, in his portrait, Jehan Gros appears to be about thirty
years of age, we thus again find the date of this diptych to
5t On analysing the different parts of the composition, Mr. Hulin
de Loo compares the type of the Virgin, the pose of the
face, the expression of the eyes with the drawing which perhaps
was used for Donaueschingen’s Virgin and which is in the
slit eyes, the more strongly defined eyebrows, Mr. Hulin de
Loo has succeeded in placing this Virgin among the most recent
of those known at the present time, due to the brush of the
Master. This would bring us to about 1460, or very shortly
38 These deductions drawn from observations based on
Rogier’s workmanship and craft and on what, from his works,
is known of his evolution, exactly correspond to the historical
precisions given by the portrait of Jehan Gros which is painted
on the other wing. This remark is important for thus we see
one of the numerous points definitely fixed, on which the
present day theory of Rogier’s personality and activity is
based. Jehan Gros belonged to a well known family that
originated in Burgundy, and which gave to Philip the Good
and to Charles the Bold respected and honoured councillors;
he himself after having, in 1469, filled the offices of First
Secretary to the Duke and Auditor in Chancery, was, after
1472, Comptroller of Estates and Finances. He died at
Dijon in 1484. Basing ourselves on the age of his wife Guye
de Messey at the moment of their marriage (1472), and seeing
that, in his portrait, Jehan Gros appears to be about thirty
years of age, we thus again find the date of this diptych to
5t On analysing the different parts of the composition, Mr. Hulin
de Loo compares the type of the Virgin, the pose of the
face, the expression of the eyes with the drawing which perhaps
was used for Donaueschingen’s Virgin and which is in the