Carondelet Diptych (left wing)
by GOSSART, Jan, Oil on panel, 43 x 27 cm
The left wing of the diptych represents Jean Carondelet. The donor portrait is superior to the other wing, both in truth of life and in pictorial quality; it is, moreover, in a better state of preservation. It is Gossart’s most splendid portrayal of Jean Carondelet, painted when the sitter was archdeacon of the cathedral at Besan�on, and it is one of the masterpieces of early Netherlandish portraiture.