What painting by Jan van Eyck is in the Louvre?

The painting by Jan van Eyck in the Louvre is The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin.

Also called The Virgin with Chancellor Rolin, this oil-on-panel painting dates to around 1435. It shows Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of the Duchy of Burgundy, kneeling before the Virgin and Child in a richly detailed architectural setting. Van Eyck's precise surfaces, brilliant textiles, landscape, and tiny background figures exemplify the achievements of Early Netherlandish painting.

Rolin commissioned the work for his parish church, Notre-Dame-du-Chastel in Autun. It remained there until the church burned in 1793, after which the painting went to Autun Cathedral. It entered the Louvre in 1805 and has remained one of the museum's key Northern European paintings.

The common mix-ups are other famous Van Eyck works: The Arnolfini Portrait is in London's National Gallery, The Ghent Altarpiece remains in Ghent, and The Man in a Red Turban is in London's National Gallery. Infrared studies have also revealed changes to the original underdrawing.