Portrait of a young girl (Christus)

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Portrait of a young girl
Petrus Christus, 1944
Oil on wood
29 × 22,5 cm
Staatilch Museen xu Berlin

Portrait of a young girl (painted after 1446) is a painting by the Dutch artist Petrus Christus. The painting marks a stylistic shift in the development of Netherlandish portraiture; the sitter is no longer srt against a neutral background, instead she is placed in a realistic physical setting.

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Suckale, Robert. "Gothic". Taschen. ISBN 3 8228 5292 9.

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