Rogier van der Weyden
(1399 - 1464)

Rogier van der Weyden was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits. He was highly successful in his lifetime; his paintings were exported to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from, amongst others, Philip the Good, Netherlandish nobility, and foreign princes. By the latter half of the 15th century, he had eclipsed Jan van Eyck in popularity. However his fame lasted only until the 17th century, and largely due to changing taste, he was almost totally forgotten by the mid-18th century. His reputation was slowly rebuilt during the 200 years that followed; today he is known, with Robert Campin and van Eyck, as the third (by birth date) of the three great Early Flemish artists (Vlaamse Primitieven or "Flemish Primitives"), and widely as the most influential Northern painter of the 15th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogier_van_der_Weyden

Self-portrait of Rogier van der Weyden, engraved by Cornelius Cort
1572
Burin engraving printed on laid paper
12 x 21 cm
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/self-portrait-of-rogier-van-der-weyden/baaca06b-6c37-4ec2-8ebd-e9200fe41949

The Latin text at the bottom translates to something like this:

<i>Let not the praise be to thee, that many, and fair Roger,
You painted so that they could bear yours in time,
Worthy, however, is a painter of our own time
To which, if he is wise, he would even like to look back:
Witness the picture of the Brussels court
They forbid Themis to depart from the straight path:
How extreme is your willingness to paint parts
It is a perpetual destitution that the medicine of hunger
You left the earth already close to death
These monuments do not flash the pole will not die.
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Portrait of a Young Woman (or Lady Wearing a Gauze Headdress)
Posted on July 3