#36 The Arnolfini Portrait — Mug

On the back wall, above the mirror, van Eyck wrote *Johannes de eyck fuit hic* — Jan van Eyck was here — and then the date. Painters of the time signed their work as makers; this reads like a witness statement, as though he were recording his presence at something. Look into the convex mirror below it and there are two more figures standing in the doorway. The National Gallery, London.