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Artist/Creator (1)	Christus, Petrus (born ca. 1410, died 1475 or 1476)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	Netherlandish
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist
Title/Caption	A Goldsmith in His Shop, Possibly Saint Eligius
Date of Work	1449
Inscription	Signed and dated in white paint (bottom): m petr[vs] xpi me fecit ao 1449 (Master Petrus Christus made me in the year 1449) [with the artist's emblem, which resembles a clock escapement combined with a heart]
Notes	Justly celebrated as one of the most famous masterpieces of Northern Renaissance art, this work shows a goldsmith in a tiny shop outfitted with the finely wrought civic, secular, and ecclesiastic wares of his trade, displayed on the shelves at the right. The painting is a virtual advertisement for the goldsmith's guild of Bruges in whose guildhall the painting may have hung. The main figure may be Eligius, patron saint of goldsmiths, as traditionally believed, or perhaps more likely a portrait of an actual goldsmith in fifteenth-century Bruges.
Technique/Process	Painting: paintings
Materials/Medium	Oil on oak panel
Dimensions	Overall 39 3/8 x 33 3/4 in. (100.1 x 85.8 cm); painted surface 38 5/8 x 33 1/2 in. (98 x 85.2 cm)
Period	Northern Renaissance
Culture	Netherlandish
Location.Current Site/City & Country	New York (N.Y.)
Location.Current Repository	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Repository Notes	The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.110), 1975
Subject	Painting, Netherlandish, Painting, 15th century Painting, Renaissance Figures, male Figures, female
Publisher	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publisher.Location	New York (N.Y.)
Credit Line	Image [copyright] The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reference Number	Met-07153
Collection Title	Painting (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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