CHARONTON, Enguerrand
(b. ca. 1410, Laon, d. 1461, Avignon)

The Coronation of the Virgin, detail: the Virgin

1453-54
Panel painting
Musée de l'Hospice, Villeneuve-les-Avignon

The Madonna is perhaps the most typically French creature in mediaeval French painting, a lovely woman with narrow eyes, a delicate face and slightly long nose.