Explore the Dating of this artwork, Madonna Standing (van der Weyden).
This painting along with the  Virgin and Child Enthroned are generally cited as the earliest known works by van der Weyden. Art historian Erwin Panofsky suggested he produced them while still in the workshop of Robert Campin. John Ward of the University of Florida suggests he executed the Madonna Standing after leaving Campin's studio to travel to Ghent where he likely saw Jan van Eyck's newly completed Ghent Altarpiece which is signed and dated May 6, 1432.Karl Birkmeyer, noting the many borrowing from van Eyck, believes that the panel was completed after Rogier left his apprenticeship. He draws on documentary evidence that the artist did not leave Campin's studio until August 1, 1432, and offers that the technical and compositional skill of the work already indicates the ability and creative freedom of a master craftsman. Birkmeyer goes on to distinguish how the borrowing of motifs are not merely echoes, and that Rogier builds on them and absorbs them into his own expressive language. Many of the motifs he was to return to in more mature works; notably in the heightened abstraction of the Durán Madonna.
Ghent Altarpiece Virgin and Child Enthroned University of Florida Ghent Durán Madonna Jan van Eyck left Erwin Panofsky Robert Campin