DETAILS
- Artist
- Petrus Christus
- Date
- 1445
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Overall 31 x 25 7/8 in. (78.7 x 65.7 cm); painted surface 30 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. (77.5 x 64.1 cm)
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THE ARTIST
Petrus Christus
Petrus Christus, a leading painter in Bruges after Jan van Eyck, revolutionized Netherlandish portraiture and was an early adopter of linear perspective.