This work is the subject of long disputes among scientists who have not come to a common opinion whether this work is a finished drawing or an unwritten picture. Silvery drawing is made by the finest brush on the primed board, inserted in the author’s frame with the inscription: “John van Eyck made me in 1437”.
Behind the back of the beautiful maiden, sitting on a hill with a book and a palm branch of a martyr in his hands, is the construction of a tower, which is its attribute, but treated by van Eyck in a genre key depicting the mass of labor episodes.
Related Paintings 
Etude to the man’s portrait by Jan van Eyck 
Portrait of Margret van Eyck’s wife by Jan van Eyck 
The Crucifixion. Diptych. Left shutter by Jan van Eyck 
Madonna with the Cartesian monk by Jan van Eyck 
St. Jerome by Jan van Eyck 
Portrait of a young man (Timothy) by Jan van Eyck 
Portrait of the four Arnolfini by Jan van Eyck 
The Annunciation at the Church by Jan van Eyck
Etude to the man’s portrait by Jan van Eyck Portrait of Margret van Eyck’s wife by Jan van Eyck The Crucifixion. Diptych. Left shutter by Jan van Eyck Madonna with the Cartesian monk by Jan van Eyck St. Jerome by Jan van Eyck Portrait of a young man (Timothy) by Jan van Eyck Portrait of the four Arnolfini by Jan van Eyck The Annunciation at the Church by Jan van Eyck