Petrus Christus

1410–1475 · Northern Renaissance

Petrus Christus was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444, where, along with Hans Memling, he became the leading painter after the death of Jan van Eyck. He was influenced by van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden and is noted for his innovations with linear perspective and a meticulous technique which seems derived from miniatures and manuscript illumination. Today, some 30 works are confidently attributed to him. The best known include the Portrait of a Carthusian (1446) and Portrait of a Young Girl ; both are highly innovative in the presentation of the figure against detailed, rather than flat, backgrounds.

36 paintings

Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (c. 1445)
Madonna (1445)
The Lamentation (1450)
Portrait of a Female Donor (1450)
Portrait of a Male Donor (1450)
Annunciation (1452)
Adoration of the Christ Child (1452)
A Goldsmith in His Shop (1449)
Crucifixion (1450)
Virgin and Child (1444)
Isabella of Portugal with Saint Elisabeth (1457)
Lamentation of Christ (1455)
Head of Christ (1445)
Portrait of a Man (1475)
Altar Panel with a Portrait of a Donor in Scarlet under the Protection of St Anthony (1450)
Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (1445)
Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Francis (1457)
Portrait of a Carthusian (1446)
Nativity (1450)
H. Johannes de Doper (1462)
St. Catherine / altar wing (1462)
The adoration of the Christ Child; in the background the annunciation to the shepherds (1452)
The Last Judgement (1452)
Mary with the Child, St. Barbara and a Carthusian Monk (1452)
Portrait of a Young Girl (1470)
Portrait of a Carthusian (1446)
Head of Christ (Ecce Homo) (ca. 1445)
The Lamentation (ca. 1450)
The Annunciation (ca. 1445)
Virgin and Child in a Domestic Interior (1460)
Portrait of a Young Man (1450)
Portrait of a Male Donor (c. 1455)
Portrait of a Female Donor (c. 1455)
The Nativity (c. 1450)
The Virgin and the Child (1450)
Madonna of the Dry Tree (1462)