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Rogier van der Weyden (Netherlandish, 1399/1400–1464)
Francesco d'Este (born about 1430, died after 1475)
ca. 1460
Oil on wood
Overall 12 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (31.8 x 22.2 cm): painted surface, each side 11 3/4 x 8 in. (29.8 x 20.3 cm)
The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931
32.100.43

Inscribed (verso): v[ost]re tout (entirely yours) / m[archio] e[stensis] (marquis of Este) [twice] / francisque (Francesco); incised (verso, upper left, at slightly later date): non plus / courcelles [no longer Courcelles; referring possibly to the village of Corcelles, near the Grandson battlefield, where the sitter may conceivably have died in 1476]