Laura D. Gelfand, Walter S. Gibson, Surrogate Selves: The "Rolin Madonna" and the Late-Medieval Devotional Portrait, Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, Vol. 29, No. 3/4 (2002), pp. 119-138
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Gelfand et al. (2002) studied this question.