Collection: Dieric Bouts
Dieric Bouts (born c. 1415 – 6 May 1475) was an Early Netherlandish painter. Bouts may have studied under Rogier van der Weyden, and his work was influenced by van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck. He worked in Leuven from 1457 (or possibly earlier) until his death in 1475. His name also appears at various museums and institutions as Dirk Bouts.
Bouts was among the first northern painters to demonstrate the use of a single vanishing point (as illustrated in his Last Supper).
Among his canonical works are Madonna Lactans, The Annunciation, The Entombment, and Christ in the house of the Pharisee Simon. He worked primarily in religious painting and portrait painting. His work is rooted in Early Netherlandish painting.
The work sits within the Renaissance tradition.