In 1430, Jan van Eyck painted "The man in a blue cap" using the principal medium in that time, oil on wood. Originally painted to be in the Brukenthal National Museum, is a very small piece (22.5 cm x 16.6 cm with frame and 19.1 cm x 13.2 cm without frame) , This piece still in the same place it was painted.
The man is shown in three-quarters view with his face dramatically lit by light falling from the left. This device provides both striking contrasts of light and shadow and draws the viewer's attention on to the man's face and a dark background. His headdress, a chaperon, contains two wings which hang down over the man's shoulders and extend to his chest. He is obviously a member of the nobility, being very well dressed in a fur lined
The man is shown in three-quarters view with his face dramatically lit by light falling from the left. This device provides both striking contrasts of light and shadow and draws the viewer's attention on to the man's face and a dark background. His headdress, a chaperon, contains two wings which hang down over the man's shoulders and extend to his chest. He is obviously a member of the nobility, being very well dressed in a fur lined