Petrus Christus

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Petrus Christus
1444 Visitors register of Bruges" "Petrus
Christus, son of Pieter, born in Baerle,
purchased his citizenship on the sixth of July,
sponsored by Joos van der Donc, in order to be
a painter" Earlier training in Dutch-Belgian
area unclearConfusion about relationship to Jan
van Eyck (d. 1441) Probably NOT official
heir. 1446-1457 Nine signed and dated works
Later documents in connection with painters'
guild, Confraternity of the Dry
Tree 1475/76 Death
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Roger van der Weyden
THERE ARE NO SIGNED OR DATED WORKS BY ROGER
c. 1400 - d. 1464
Beaune, Hotel Dieu (hospital) Last
Judgment Altar 1446-52 Bladelein Altar. Pieter
Bladelin, for Middleburg 1450 Jubilee trip to
Rome Entombment Braque Triptych 1451/52 Crucifixio
n Diptych (Philadelphia Museum) Portrait of
Francesco dEste, Unknown WomanDiptych of
Philippe de Croy St. Colomba Altar

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Trip to Italy
Trip to Italy, perhaps for Jubilee year 1456
Bartolomelo Fazio speaks of Rogers visit in 1450
for the Jubilee Year Also claims he was struck
by a Gentile da Fabriano painting Shows evidence
of having seen work in Florence Italianate
works Medici Madonna Entombment
Subsquently, Roger's art shows more clarity and
more monumentality, more advanced perspective
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Lamentation
Uffizi, Florence 43 1/4 x 37 3/4" c.
1450 Compare to Fra Angelico From predella of
San Marco altar ca. 1440(next slide)
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Braque Triptych
Louvre c. 1450-52 Jehan Braque of Tournai
d. 1452 memorial image Marr. 1451 Catherine
de Brabant Image mentioned in her
will Center 13 1/4 x 24 1/2 Christ between
Virgin and St. John Evangelist Left John the
Baptist and Baptism Right Mary Magdalene
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"Take notice, you so proud and greedy, my body
was once beautiful but now is food for worms.."
Momento mori "remember death"
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Crucifixion Diptych
Philadelphia Ca. 1455-59 Perhaps outside
shutters of a diptych 70 x 36 1/2" In 1449,
Rogers only son Corneille entered Carthusian
monastery at Herinnes (near Brussels), died 1473.
Roger made generous donations to this and second
foundation at Scheut, which received a similar
Crucifixion
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Portrait of a Lady
c. 1455Oil on oak panel, 37 x 27 cmNational
Gallery of Art, Washington
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Francesco d'Este
NY Metropolitan Museum 11 3/4 x 8" Ca.
1455-60 Bastard of Lionello d'Este, sent to
Brussels as youth
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Letters M E with ribbon marchio (marquis)
estensis (of Este) vostre tout
francisque "yours truly, Francesco" Perhaps a
gift to a friend, portable
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Diptych of Philippe de Croy
1455-60 Left Madonna and Child Panel,
19 1/2 x 12 1/2" Huntingon Library, San
Marino Right Portrait Panel 19 1/4 x 11
7/8" Antwerp, Musee des Beaux-Arts
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St. Columba Altar
Munich, Alte Pinakothek For Chapel in St.
Columba's, Cologne (influence on German
art) c. 1460-62 Copied by 1462 Oil on oak
panel, 138 x 153 cm (central), 138 x 70 cm (each
wing) Adoration of the Magi 54 x 60" Charles
the Bold is youngest magus Annunciation Roger's
ultimate refinement of theme Presentation
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Petrus Christus
1444 Visitors register of Bruges" "Petrus
Christus, son of Pieter, born in Baerle,
purchased his citizenship on the sixth of July,
sponsored by Joos van der Donc, in order to be
a painter" Earlier training in Dutch-Belgian
area unclearConfusion about relationship to Jan
van Eyck (d. 1441) Probably NOT official
heir. 1446-1457 Nine signed and dated works
Later documents in connection with painters'
guild, Confraternity of the Dry
Tree 1475/76 Death
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St Jerome in His Study
Inscribed 1442Panel 8 x 5 1/4"Detroit
Institute of Arts Finished after van Eyck's death
by a follower? Read more
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Portrait of a Carthusian
Oil on wood Overall 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. NY,
Metropolitan Read more
Inscriptions Signed and dated (bottom, on
simulated frame) PETRVSXPIMEFECITAo1446
(Petrus Christus made me in the year 1446)
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Portrait of Edward Grimston
1446Oil on wood, 33,6 x 24,7 cmEarl of Verulam
Collection, London Signed on the reverse PETRVS
XPI ME. FECIT Ao. 1446 Diplomat for Henry VI,
King of England. He holds a chain of linked SSs,
a Lancastrian device 1446 visited Calais and
Brussels (perhaps Bruges) Read more
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Goldsmith / St. Eligius
Oil on oak panel Overall 39 3/8 x 33 3/4 in.
Read more
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Inscriptions
Signed and dated in white paint (bottom) m
petrvs xpi me fecitao 1449 (Master Petrus
Christus made me in the year 1449) with the
artist's emblem, which resembles a clock
escapement combined with a heart
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A new type "vocational portrait" St. Eligius
is patron of goldsmiths
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Lamentation
1455-60Oil on wood, 98 x 188 cmMusées Royaux
des Beaux Arts, Brussels
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Virgin and Child with SS Jerome and Francis
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt,
1457 Earliest dated example in the north of the
use of geometric perspective with a single
vanishing point.
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Virgin and Child in Domestic Interior
c. 1460 Oil on wood panel 28-1/8 x 20-1/2
inches (71.5 x 52.1 cm) Kansas City,
Nelson-Atkins Gallery Read more
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Madonna of the Dry Tree
c. 1462 5 3/4 x 4 7/8" Thyssen-Bornemisza
Collection Christus and wife members of the
Confraternity of the Dry Tree. copy of
devotional image 15 A's Ave Marias of rosary
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Portrait of a Young Man
c. 1460Wood, 35,5 x 26,3 cmNational Gallery,
London
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Prayer to the Holy Sudarium
Hail, Holy Face of our Redeemer, in which shines
the vision of idvine splendor which was imprinted
on the white cloth given to Veronica as a token
of love. Hail, our glory in this hard
lifefraught, fragile and soon to be overlead
us, wonderful image, to our true homeland, that
we may see the face of Christ himself. Hail,
Sudarium, excellent jewel, be our solace and
reminder. No human hand depicted, carved or
polished you, as the heavenly Artist knows who
made you as you are. Be to us, we beg, a trusty
help, a sweet comfort and consolation, that the
enemys aggtression may do us no harm but we may
enjoy rest. Let us say together Amen.