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Click to view high resolution image Title: Portrait of Female Donor Creator: Petrus Christus, painter Description: The woman is dressed in sumptuous clothing. She kneels at a prie-dieu on which there is an open book and she looks up and presses her hands together in prayer. A shield on the wall bears the arms of the Vivaldi, a Genoese banking family who often did business in the north. A woodcut of St. Elizabeth of Hungary has been stuck to the wall with red sealing wax, perhaps because she is the woman's namesake. This portrait was a wing of a triptych, with a central image for devotion. Lynn F. Jacobs in Opening Doors: The Early Netherlandish Triptych (pp. 122-123) suggests that the central panel depicted the Madonna enthroned with Saints Jerome and Francis (now in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main). Source: WikiMedia Commons Rights: Public domain Subject (See Also): Domestic Space Donor Portraits Prayer Woodcuts Geographic Area: Low Countries Century: 15 Date: ca. 1455 Related Work: Opposite wing with male donor: http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=46109. Zoom image of both donor paintings:https://images.nga.gov/en/search/show_advanced_search_page.html?service=search&action=do_advanced_search&language=en&form_name=default&all_words=&exact_phrase=&exclude_words=&artist_last_name=petrus+christus&keywords_in_title=&accession_number=&school=&Classification=&medium=&year=&year2= Current Location: Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection1961.9.11 Original Location: Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Paintings Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Panel paintings; Tempera; Oil Donor: Height/Width/Length(cm): 41cm/22cm/ Inscription: Related Resources:

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