 Her pale skin and strong bone structure is strongly van Eyckian, and recalls the male sitter in his "Arnolfini Portrait".But in other ways Christus abandons the developments made by van Eyck and Robert Campin.He reduces the emphasis on volume of those artists, in favour of an elongation of form; the narrow, slight upper body and head are, according to the art historian Robert Suckale, "heightened by the V-shaped neckline of the ermine and the cylindrical hat."