Portrait of a Young Girl
Petrus Christus · 1470
The story
Portrait of a Young Girl is a small oil-on-oak panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Petrus Christus. It was completed towards the end of his life, between 1465 and 1470, and is held in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. It marks a major stylistic advance in contemporary portraiture; the girl is set in an airy, three-dimensional, realistic setting, and stares out at the viewer with a complicated expression that is reserved, yet intelligent and alert.
- Artist
- Petrus Christus
- Date
- 1470
- Collection
- Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany
- Movement
- Early Netherlandish painting
- Medium
- oil paint, oak panel
- Size
- 29 × 22.5 cm
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