Laura Cumming
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We'll come to that in a minute, too.
And she's wearing a white head cloth.
She looks remarkably like, if you know any...
Portraits by Jan van Eyck.
She looks very like the women in those portraits.
So quite sort of low countries, again, very pale, slightly reddish hair.
And she's looking not at him and he is looking not quite at her.
We'll come to that in a moment.
Her floor are the beginning of a whole sequence of details.
There are wooden patterns.
Those are those shoes that you put on over your shoes to go out in the mud.
They're his and they still have a little mud on them.
There's a dog right at the front of the painting, a bristly, merry little dog.
Nobody knows quite what breed it is.
It's got a very wet little nose.
It's very mischievous.
There's a whole theory about this painting related to the dog.
He certainly doesn't look like a solemn dog, does he?
And there are three oranges and one above on a window ledge.
The shutters of the window have been very carefully opened on the left-hand side so you can see into a garden.