# A Knight of the Golden Fleece [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, French]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Oil on walnut, 68 x 54 cm ## Commentary A Knight of the Golden Fleece c. 1495 Oil on walnut, 68 x 54 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington The sitter's name is unknown, but he can be identified as a member of the nobility by the fleece attached to the gold chain around his neck. This is the insignum of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the chivalric order founded in 1430 by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. The pose of the sitter suggests that this portrait was one of a pair that included a depiction of the sitter's wife. ## Related artworks - [A Miracle of St Benedict]() - [Adam]() - [Allegory of the Vanity of Earthly Things]() - [Altar frontal: Christ and Angels]() - [Annunciation]() - [Apostle \(detail\)]() - [Apostle]() - [Archangel Gabriel]() - [Book cover]() - [Book cover]() - [Bust of Cardinal Duprat]() - [Choir chapel screen]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()