Petrus Christus, 1446 - Portrait of a Carthusian - fine art print

(© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Christus places his sitter in the corner of a warmly illuminated room and enhances the quality of his "real" presence by the fly resting momentarily on the fictive frame. The leading painter of Bruges following Jan van Eyck's death in 1441, Christus moves beyond the flat neutral backgrounds of his predecessor's portraits. The illusionistic inscription underscores the verisimilitude of the portrait, declaring: "Petrus Christus made me in the year 1446."

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This more than 570 years old masterpiece called Portrait of a Carthusian was created by the northern renaissance master Petrus Christus. The version of the work of art measures the size 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). Oil on wood was used by the European artist as the technique for the painting. Furthermore, the piece of art belongs to the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. The classic art public domain artwork is provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jules Bache Collection, 1949. The creditline of the artpiece is the following: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949. In addition to this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a ratio of 3 : 4, which means that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Petrus Christus was a Netherlandish painter, born ca. from the Netherlands, whose artistic style was primarily Northern Renaissance. The European painter was born in 1444 in Baarle-Hertog, Antwerpen province, Flanders, Belgium and passed away at the age of 32 in the year 1476 in Bruges, West-Vlaanderen, Flanders, Belgium.

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