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  1. Title: Portrait of a Carthusian. Artist: Petrus Christus (Netherlandish, Baarle-Hertog (Baerle-Duc), active by 1444–died 1475/76 Bruges) Date: 1446. Medium: Oil on wood. Dimensions: Overall 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (29.2 x 21.6 cm); painted surface 11 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (29.2 x 18.7 cm) Classification: Paintings.

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  2. 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.

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  4. The best known include the Portrait of a Carthusian (1446) and Portrait of a Young Girl (c. 1470); both are highly innovative in the presentation of the figure against detailed, rather than flat, backgrounds.

  5. The Museum’s collection includes one such portrait of 1446 , arguably Christuss finest and the earliest of his signed and dated works, depicting a lay brother of the Carthusian order. In certain ways, it represents an homage to the lifelike portraits of Jan van Eyck in its three-quarter bust-length view, and the attention lavished upon the ...

  6. Mar 18, 2023 · Summary of Portrait of a Carthusian. In 1446, the Early Netherlandish painter Petrus Christus created Portrait of a Carthusian, an oil on oak panel painting. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is home to the Jules Bache Collection, which includes this piece. As a masterpiece of Early Netherlandish painting and a prominent early example ...

  7. Potrait of a Carthusian 1446 Oil on wood, 29,2 x 21,6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: In 1444, three years after the death of Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus left his homeland in the northern Netherlands to settle in Bruges.

  8. 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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