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Portrait of a Carthusian is a painting in oils on oak panel by the Early Netherlandish painter Petrus Christus in 1446. The work is part of the Jules Bache Collection housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Portrait of a Carthusian. Petrus Christus Netherlandish. 1446. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 605. Christus placed his sitter in the corner of a warmly illuminated room and enhanced the quality of his "real" presence by the fly resting momentarily on the fictive frame.
Carthusians live very simply and devote their time to praying—most of the day in just a single small room. At one point, long after the artist completed the painting but before it entered the Museum, someone added a halo around the man’s head. Since Petrus Christus was not the one who painted the halo, the Museum’s conservators removed it.
Mar 29, 2012 · Portrait of a Carthusian is a painting in oils on oak panel by the Early Netherlandish painter Petrus Christus in 1446. The work is part of the Jules Bache Collection housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Petrus Christus, Portrait of a Carthusian, 1446 (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Speakers: Dr. David Drogin, Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
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Apr 18, 2024 · Among Christus’s most important paintings are Portrait of a Carthusian (1446), St. Eligius (1449), the Virgin with Saints Jerome and Francis (probably 1457), and the Virgin with Child, St. Barbara and a Carthusian Monk.
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