abstract:Rogier van der Weyden () or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 1400 – 18 June 1464) was an Early Flemish painter. His surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces and commissioned single and diptych portraits.
IfIgo to the PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art, for instance, inthe Middle Agessection, theironlytrulyinterestingpaintings are the ones by vanEyckandRogiervan der Weyden.
In this regard, Braque likely knew of the iconographical use of a skull in an extraordinary 15th-century altarpiece panel picture in the Louvre, painted by the Netherlandish master RogiervanderWeyden and named the "Braque Triptych" for the work's patron, one Jehan Braque of Tournai.