Agnes van den Bossche

Other known city commissions include blazons and pennons for trumpets between 1474 and 1475, and for a number of flags in 1476–77 for the Joyous Entry of Duchess Marie.

Second, flags, banners, blazons and pennons were not formats of the highest painters; there is no evidence that she worked on panel paintings, altarpieces or devotional art of any kind.

[2] The Maid of Ghent is painted on both sides with oil on linen, and is decorated along the edges of the green silk fringes with embroidery.

The maid acts as a symbol of the then besieged city, and is depicted with the body type ideal in the late Gothic style.

She stands on a patch of grass and flowers, while her hand rests on and holds back a large heraldically designed red lion.

Her collar hangs low over her upper chest, partially covering an underdress with a horizontal neckline, similar to that of the second daughter in Hans Memling's Triptych of the Family Moreel.

[3] Placing the Maid of Ghent in context, art historian Diane Wolfthal observed that it "is not a work of the highest quality.

The Maid of Ghent - Flag of the City of Ghent, 1481–82. 100 x 265cm, STAM Museum , Ghent
Agnes van den Bossche, detail of the Maid of Ghent
Unknown artist, Flag of Frauenfeld , 15th century, Historisches Museum, Frauenfeld . A very similar design, but with a somewhat more matronly maid
Unknown miniaturist The scribe presenting his work to Margaret of Austria . Friedrich-Schiller Universitats bibliothek, Jena . Ms. El. f. 85, 13 V
Hans Memling , Triptych of the Family Moreel , 1484