1450, by which time van Eyck's workshop had ceased operation. Christus' panel can be viewed as an interpretation rather than a close copy of the van Eyck, that also borrows from van Eyck's now lost Madonna of Nicolas van Maelbeke. In Literature The painting is referenced in Margaret Campbell Barnes' historical novel "My Lady of Cleves". As depicted in the book, about a century after it was painted the picture and its artistic merits are discussed by painter Hans Holbein and Anne of Cleeves who is about to become Queen of England. Notes Sources Borchert, Till-Holger. Van Eyck. London: Taschen, 2008. Harbison, Craig. Jan van Eyck: the play of realism. London: Reaktion Books, 1997. Ridderbos, Bernhard; Van Buren, Anne; Van Veen, Henk. Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception and Research. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005. Upton, Joel Morgan. Petrus Christus: His Place in Fifteenth-Century Flemish Painting. Ward, John. "Disguised Symbolism as Enactive Symbolism in Van Eyck's Paintings". Artibus et Historiae, Volume 15, No. 29, 1994 Paintings by Jan van Eyck 1440s paintings Paintings of the Madonna and Child