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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.
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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.
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View all 27 artworks. Petrus Christus lived in the XV cent., a remarkable figure of Flemish Northern Renaissance. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Flemish
- Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
The refinement of this image makes it more comparable with Christus’s portraits than with the somewhat formulaic heads in his religious paintings. The Museum’s collection includes one such portrait of 1446 ( 49.7.19 ), arguably Christus’s finest and the earliest of his signed and dated works, depicting a lay brother of the Carthusian order.
Dec 6, 2023 · Couple (detail), Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in his Shop, 1449, oil on oak panel, 100.1 x 85.8 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Petrus Christus’ artistic concerns are typical of painters of his time.
A Goldsmith in his Shop. Petrus Christus Netherlandish. 1449. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 953. A celebrated masterpiece of Northern Renaissance Art, this painting was signed and dated 1449 by Petrus Christus, the leading painter in Bruges (Flanders) after the death of Jan van Eyck.
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.
