Dieric Bouts
Dieric Bouts, also spelled Dirk, Dierick and Dirck (born circa 1410/1420, died 1475) was an Early Netherlandish painter.
According to Karel van Mander in his Het Schilderboeck of 1604, Bouts was born in Haarlem and was mainly active in Leuven (Louvain), where he was city painter from 1468. Van Mander confused the issue by writing biographies of both "Dieric of Haarlem" and "Dieric of Leuven," although he was referring to the same artist. The similarity of their last names also led to the confusion of Bouts with Hubrecht Stuerbout, a prominent sculptor in Leuven. Very little is actually known about Bouts' early life, but he was greatly influenced by Jan van Eyck and by Rogier van der Weyden, under whom he may have studied. He is first documented in Leuven in 1457 and worked there until his death in 1475.
Bouts was among the first northern painters to demonstrate the use of a single vanishing point (as illustrated in his Last Supper). His work has a certain primitive stiffness of drawing, but his pictures are highly expressive, well designed and rich in colour.
Bouts' earliest work is the Infancy Triptych in the Prado (Madrid), dated to about 1445. The Deposition Altarpiece in Granada (Capilla Real) probably also dates to this period, around 1450-60. A dismembered canvas altarpiece—now in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Brussels)[1], the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles)[2], National Gallery (London)[3], Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena)[4], and a Swiss private collection—with the same dimensions as the Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament may belong to this period. The Louvre Lamentation (Pietà) is another early work.
The Munich problem(s)
Two Boutsian works in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich have perplexed art historians. One is the so-called Pearl of Brabant Triptych, which writers as early as 1902 tried to separate from Bouts' authentic works. Recent research seems to refute this attempt. The other is a pair of panels from an altarpiece depicting the Passion — respectively showing the Betrayal of Christ and the Resurrection. For a long time these were considered some of Bouts' earliest works, but dendrochronological evidence now places them around the time of his death in 1475. Schone's 1938 invention of a "Master of the Munich Betrayal" is a more appropriate attribution.
Bouts Other works
The Last Supper and Justice Panels are the only works known to be definitely done by Bouts. The remaining panels from the Last Judgment Altarpiece (datable to 1468-70) and the Martyrdom of St. Erasmus Triptych (before 1466) are also fairly secure attributions. Aside from these, a number of other paintings have been attributed to him, including:
* in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
o a Christ in the House of Simon
o a Nativity fragment with the Virgin at Prayer (see Paris below)
* in the Groeningemuseum, Bruges
o a triptych of the Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus
* in the Capilla Real, Granada
o a Virgin Enthroned with Four Angels
* in the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
o an Annunciation
* in the National Gallery, London
o a Virgin Enthroned with St. Peter and St. Paul
* in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
o an Ecce Agnus Dei
* in the Louvre Paris
o a Nativity fragment with St. Joseph (see Berlin above)
o a Virgin and Child Enthroned in a Niche
* in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
o a Moses before the Burning Bush
* in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam
o a Bust of Christ
* in the National Gallery of Art, Washington
o a Virgin and Child
We list following Bouts Paintings.
Dieric Bouts Paintings Ecce agnus Dei
Dieric Bouts Paintings Paradise
Dieric Bouts Paintings Prophet Elijah in the Desert
Dieric Bouts Paintings The Gathering of the Manna
Dieric Bouts Paintings Resurrection
Dieric Bouts Paintings The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek
More Dieric Bouts Paintings to be added!
other artist: Gustave Courbet Paintings Albert Bierstadt Paintings John Singer Sargent Paintings Camille Pissarro Paintings