Hulin de Loo, Georges: Early Flemish paintings in the Renders Collection at Bruges: exhibited at the Belgian Exhibition, Burlington House, January 1927 (London, 1927)

survival of the old Van Eyck traditions. It is easy to
recognise that we have here, although in a more or less
altered form, that type of Christ painted by John which is
now only known to us by the rather numerous copies still
extant. One of these copies, which in England has recently
come, from Newcastle, into the hands of picture - dealers,
is perhaps the one which is nearer the original. There are
other replicas, in particular in the Berlin Museum (n° 528)
and in the Bruges Museum, probably coming from two
distinct originals, for the lighting of the face and the date
on the frame vary in both cases. The Virgin, also, seems
to belong to the Van Eyck group, and there is a distant
analogy with the picture representing the Holy Women at
the Sepulchre in the Coock Collection at Richmond, j-j-
ft; Our panel, therefore, seems to us to have been painted
by some successor of Petrus Christus working in Bruges probably
between 1460 and 1490, oddly faithful to old formulae, at a
time when the art of Gerard David was bringing other
ideas which were soon to lead to the opening out of
new possibilities. Mr. Hulin de Loo knows of another
picture by the same painter, formed like ours of two
personages of a diptych : a half - length figure of the Virgin
with the Child, and at the side the figure of a donor with

SUMMARY BIBLIOGRAPHY : r-——:-r—*—*— -
Friedl'dnder (Max J.): Die Altniederldndische Malerei, t.1, Berlin, 1924.
p. 116-117. FI. 47.