Artist Biography

Petrus Christus (1410-1473), Dutch

 

     Petrus Christus was a leading master of early Netherlandish painting. Known to have been in Bruges before 1440, Christus was probably apprenticed to Jan van Eyck. He completed at least two paintings left unfinished by van Eyck on the latter's death in 1441 (St. Jerome, Detroit Institute of Arts; Rothschild Madonna, Frick Collection, New York City).

     Christus's independent paintings, exemplified by Nativity (1445; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), reflect a synthesis of the spatial and volumetric advances of van Eyck and the emotionalism of Rogier van der Weyden. He furthered van Eyck's interest in visual literalism by his experiments with linear perspective, as in Sir Edward Grymestone (1446; National Gallery, London).
 

Petrus Christus Oil Paintings Reproductions:

Portrait of a Carthusian 60cm x 50cm (24 x 20 inches) $158 - Musee du Petit Palais
Portrait of a Young Woman 60cm x 50cm (24 x 20 inches) $158 - National Portrait Gallery
The Man of Sorrows 60cm x 50cm (24 x 20 inches) $158 - Collegiate Church
The Nativity 60cm x 50cm (24 x 20 inches) $158 - Church of Ognissanti

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