St Lambert Reliquary - LOYET, Gerard - WGA
St Lambert Reliquary by LOYET, Gerard
St Lambert Reliquary by LOYET, Gerard

St Lambert Reliquary

by LOYET, Gerard, Gold and silver gilt, height 53 cm

Commissioned by Charles the Bold and executed in encrusted enamel technique, the reliquary shows the duke holding a finger relic of St Lambert and presented by St George, whose posture resembles the same saint depicted 35 years earlier in Jan van Eyck’s painting of Canon van der Paele.

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