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Petrus Christus (artist)
Netherlandish, active 1444 - 1475/1476
Portrait of a Female Donor, c. 1455
oil on panel
Overall: 41.8 x 21.6 cm (16 7/16 x 8 1/2 in.) framed: 54.3 x 35.5 x 9.2 cm (21 3/8 x 14 x 3 5/8 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1961.9.11
From the Tour: Netherlandish Painting in the 1400s
Object 6 of 9

1937Friedländer 1937, 14:78-79 (vol. 1, 1967: 104, 110, pl. 104).
1938Burroughs, Alan. Art Criticism from a Laboratory. Boston, 1938: 250.
1946Friedländer, Max J. "The Death of the Virgin by Petrus Christus." The Burlington Magazine 88 (1946): 159, pls. IIA-B.
1948Puyvelde, Leo van. The Flemish Primitives. Brussels, 1948: 27, pl. 53.
1951Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Interpreting Masterpieces." Art News 50 (1951): 100-101, repro. 103.
1951Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 170, no. 75, repro. 173.
1952Bazin, Germain. "Petrus Christus et les rapports entre l'Italie et la Flandre au milieu du XVe siècle." La Revue des Arts 2 (1952): 199, 208.
1952Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Interpreting Masterpieces: Twenty-four Paintings from the Kress Collection." Art News Annual 1952:100-101, repro. 103
1953Panofsky, ENP 1953, 313, 430-431, 491.
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 58
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 279, repro., as A Donor's Wife.
1960Broadley, Hugh T. Flemish Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Five in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 5, 20, color repro.
1961Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 72, 208, figs. 63-64.
1962Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 52, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 304, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 27
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:78, color repro.
1968Cuttler 1968, 133, fig. 158.
1968Ward, John L. "A New Look at the Friedsam Annunciation." The Art Bulletin 50 (1968): 187.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 20, repro.
1969Blum, Shirley Neilsen. Early Netherlandish Triptychs. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969: 117.
1970Lane, Barbara G. "Petrus Christus: A Reconstructed Triptych with an Italian Motif." The Art Bulletin 52 (1970): 390-393, figs. 1, 3.
1971Schabacker, Peter H., and Barbara G. Lane. Exchange of letters. The Art Bulletin 53 (1971): 281-283.
1972Schabacker, Peter H. Review of Rogier van der Weyden by Martin Davies. In The Art Quarterly 35 (1972): 424.
1974Schabacker, Peter H. Petrus Christus. Utrecht, 1974: 51, 55, 108-109, 112-114, 120, 136, no. 18, fig. 18.
1975Gellman, Lola B. Review of Petrus Christus by Peter H. Schabacker. In Simiolus 8 (1975/1976): 33.
1975Upton, Joel M. "Devotional Imagery and Style in the Washington Nativity by Petrus Christus." Studies in the History of Art 7 (1975): 52, fig 2.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 68, repro.
1976Sterling, Charles. "Tableaux espagnols et un chef d'oeuvre portugais méconnus du XVe siècle." Acats del XXIII congreso internacional de historia del arte. ... Granada, 1973. 3 vols. Granada, 1976: 1:501-502, fig. 6.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 51-54, fig. 49, text fig. 17, as Donatrix.
1977Eisler, Colin. Review of Petrus Christus by Peter H. Schabacker. In The Art Bulletin 59 (1977): 141.
1978Panhans-Bühler, Ursula. Eklektizismus und Originalität im Werk des Petrus Christus. Vienna, 1978: 118-123, fig. 75.
1979Campbell, Lorne. Review of Eklektizismus und Originalität im Werk des Petrus Christus by Ursula Panhans-Bühler. In The Burlington Magazine 121 (1979): 802.
1979Collier, James M. "The Kansas City Petrus Christus: Its Importance and Dating." The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin 5, no. 5 (1979): 27, 31, 36, fig. 6.
1980Paolini, Maria Grazia. "Problemi antonelliani Rapporti tra pittura fiamminga e italiana." Storia dell'arte 38-40 (1980): 164-165.
1980Scott, Margaret. The History of Dress Series. Late Gothic Europe, 1400-1500. London, 1980: 165, 241, fig. 96, pls. 6-7.
1981Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "A Newly Discovered Eyckian St. John the Baptist in a Landscape." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67 (1981): 115, 118.
1984Eisler, Colin T. "A Nativity Signed PETRUS XPI ME FECIT 1452." Liber Amicorum Herman Liebaers. Brussels, 1984: 465.
1984Sterling, Charles. "A la recherche des oeuvres de Zanetto Bugatto: une nouvelle piste." Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Federico Zeri. 2 vols. Milan, 1984: 1:177.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 122, no. 105, color repro., as A Donor and His Wife.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 88, repro.
1986Hand, John Oliver and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1986: 49-55, repro. 51.
2001Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 14b.

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