Francesco d'Este
Rogier van der Weyden
€39,90
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Francesco d'Este, painted around 1460 by the Flemish master Rogier van der Weyden, is a masterwork of Early Netherlandish portraiture prized for its extraordinary psychological restraint and technical refinement. The sitter, an illegitimate son of the Marquess of Ferrara who was raised at the Burgundian court, is shown in strict profile holding a hammer and ring — attributes long believed to allude to a tournament victory or a ceremonial office he held.
Van der Weyden, one of the preeminent portraitists of fifteenth-century Flanders, renders Francesco's features with the meticulous precision and cool, controlled dignity characteristic of Burgundian court portraiture. The strict profile format, inherited from ancient coin portraiture, lends the sitter a timeless, almost heraldic authority, while van der Weyden's subtle modeling of flesh and fabric reveals his mastery of the oil medium at its most refined.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Rogier van der Weyden |
| Year | ca. 1460 |
| Medium | Oil on wood |
| Dimensions | 12 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (31.8 x 22.2 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Renaissance |
