Portrait of a young girl (Christus)
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| Portrait of a young girl |
| Petrus Christus, after 1446 |
| 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 set against a neutral background, instead she is placed in a realistic physical setting.
[edit] Sources
Suckale, Robert. "Gothic". Taschen. ISBN 3 8228 5292 9.
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