Head of Christ, ca. 1445, Oil on parchment, laid down on wood, Overall 5 7/8 x 4 1/4 in. (14. 9 x 10. 8 cm) ; parchment 5 3/4 x 4 1/8 in. (14. 6 x 10. 5 cm), Paintings, Petrus Christus (Netherlandish, Baarle-Hertog (Baerle-Duc), active by 1444?died 1475/76 Bruges), This intimate image of Christ's head, intended for private devotion, derives from a lost picture of the Holy Face by Jan van Eyck, now known only through copies. Following the Eyckian composition, Petrus Christus treated the head like a portrait by surrounding it with a fictive frame, thereby underscoring the physical immediacy of Christ