(b Baerle-Duc [now Baarle-Hertog], c. 1410; d
Bruges, 1475–6).
South Netherlandish painter. His known artistic career began in Bruges
on 6 July 1444 when, as the Poorterboek (‘citizens’ register’)
for that day reveals, ‘he purchased his citizenship ... in order to be a
painter’. Town records show that he and his wife became members of the
Confraternity of the Dry Tree c. 1462; that in 1463 he and
another painter, Pieter Nachtegale, were paid for the construction of a
Tree of Jesse (destr.) and for the cost of assistants employed on
the day of the religious procession in which it was used; and that on 19
March 1472 he served as a representative of the painters’ guild in a
dispute with another painter, Jehan de Hervy the elder ( fl
1472–1507). These and a few other scattered references comprise the
existing documentation for Christus’s life and work.
Annunciation
1452
Wood, 85,5 x 54,8 cm
Groeninge Museum, Bruges
Nativity
1452
Wood, 85,5 x 54,8 cm
Groeninge Museum, Bruges
Death of the Virgin
1457-67
Wood, 171,1 x 138,4 cm
Timken Art Gallery, San Diego
The Lamentation
1455-60
Oil on wood, 98 x 188 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts, Brussels
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