Artist · 4 prints
Rogier van der Weyden Prints
About Rogier van der Weyden
Rogier van der Weyden (1399 or 1400–1464) was a painter from the Low Countries, born in Tournai, in present-day Belgium. He was apprenticed to the painter Robert Campin in Tournai from 1427 to 1432, and in 1435 he became official painter to the city of Brussels, where he lived for the rest of his life. He worked for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, for foreign princes, for the city and for the church, and he may have visited Rome in 1450. Rogier van der Weyden died in Brussels on 18 June 1464.
Rogier is known for religious scenes of intense but controlled emotion, where grief shows in tight mouths, tearful eyes and clasped hands, set in shallow, carefully arranged space. His Descent from the Cross, completed by about 1435, is in the Prado in Madrid and is still considered his greatest work. The Magdalene Reading in the National Gallery, London, is a surviving fragment of a larger altarpiece.
Rogier van der Weyden prints: reproductions of paintings by the early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, made between about 1432 and 1460. The collection includes Saint George and the Dragon (1432), Portrait of a Woman (1440), Portrait of a Lady (1460) and Philippe de Croy (1460).
This selection is weighted towards portraits: two women in white linen headdresses and the Burgundian nobleman Philippe de Croy, each shown close up with lowered eyes and folded hands against a plain dark background. Saint George and the Dragon is a small panel with a detailed landscape and town behind the fight.
The small, restrained portraits suit studies, bedrooms, reading corners and narrow walls, and the two women's portraits can be hung as a pair. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
