Carondelet Diptych (right wing)
by GOSSART, Jan, Oil on panel, 43 x 27 cm
The right panel of the Carondelet Diptych represents the Virgin and Child. This depiction does not mimic the idealised type of the Virgin that Gossart used for his many representations of her and therefore might be a portrait of a woman in the guise of the Virgin. The pose of the Child is uncharacteristically naturalistic, and his head is not idealised in the same way as the other images of the Christ Child in Gossart’s oeuvre.