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15th-century Dutch painter

Dieric Bouts^{[note 1]} (born c.&#; – 6 May )^[2] 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 (or possibly earlier) until his death in ^[3]

Bouts was among the first northern painters to demonstrate the use of a single vanishing point (as illustrated in his Last Supper).

Works

Early works (before )

Bouts' earliest work is the Triptych of the Virgin's Life in the Prado (Madrid), dated about The Deposition Altarpiece in Granada (Capilla Real) probably also dates to this period, around –^[4] A dismembered canvas altarpiece—now in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Brussels),^[5] the J.

Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles),^[6] National Gallery (London),^[7]Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena),^[8] and a Swiss private collection—w