A Man and A Woman (Campin)

A Man and A Woman is the title sometimes used for a pair of oil and egg tempera on oak panel[1] paintings attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Robert Campin, completed c. 1435.

The portraits are very similar in a number of aspects, apart from their near identical size and form (each is made from two vertically grained and laid boards of oak).

[5] Both figures wear extravagant and large headdress; his is a chaperon made from red fabric,[6] hers consists of two to three wrapped linen veils.

[5] Since their rediscovery in the early 19th century, the paintings have at times been attributed Quentin Matsys, and later to Jan van Eyck (given it similarly to his presumed self-portrait, also in the National Gallery, but signed with a date of 1433, that two years earlier).

[4] Usually accepted as pendants of a married couple, in the cases of Matsys and van der Weyden, there was a presumption that the portraits were of that artist and their wife.