Csornay Boldizsár - Hubai Péter szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 96. (Budapest, 2002)

KOVÁCS, ZOLTÁN: A New Representation of the Salvator Mundi from the workshop of Quentin Massys

36. Infra-red reflectography (IRR) photograph accompanying the catalogue entry reveals a number of slight differences between the two paintings. The relatively significant difference between the measurements of the two (our picture is 102 by 78 cm, whereas the ex-Foresti painting is recorded as 126 by 88 cm) also deserves consideration. Judging from the photograph in the sale catalogue, the Milanese painting must have been in a heavily overpainted state, as the hard contours of the figure of Christ against the neutral, light-toned back-