Ince-Hall-Madonna

The Ince Hall Madonna is a panel painting that has been assigned for a long time, Jan van Eyck, because there on the scene a signature of Jan van Eyck wears and is dated with the year 1433. Art History, this painting is now generally no longer associated with the work of van Eyck, but a Jan van Eyck 's successor. It is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.

The painting shows one of a magnificent canopy over crowned Madonna holding in her lap the Christ child, leafing through a book. The Madonna is not sitting in spite of the canopy on a throne, but seems to squat on the floor. This form of representation filed by the history of art as contradictory. The canopy refers back to the representation of a Queen of Heaven; the representation form of a crouching on the floor Madonna contrast humilitatis a Madonna. The spatial relationship between the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child and the surrounding furniture is indicated only vague and the image structure lacks the depth extension, such as Jan van Eyck his Lucca Madonna or Rolin Madonna could give.

The doubt as to the authorship of Jan van Eyck were also confirmed by a more accurate image analysis; the letter form of the signature does not match the signatures, as they correspond to the Madonna of Canon Joris van der Paele or Mary Triptych of the Dresden collection of paintings. The signature is also located on the scene, were signed on the frame while this Madonna by Jan van Eyck. As an attempt to explain some art historians considered that after the loss of the signed original frame, the signature was subsequently transferred by an unknown painter on the image surface. Again, this is not confirmed by the more detailed examination of the painting: The signature is located directly on the painting surface. Because of inconsistencies in the presentation, the painting no longer considered to be the true copy of a now lost Jan van Eyck original. The history of art is representing rather the view that here a Jan van Eyck 's successor created a painting in the form of a pastiche. He obviously oriented closely at the Lucca Madonna.