BOUTS, Dieric the Elder
(b. ca. 1415, Haarlem, d. 1475, Leuven)

The Ordeal by Fire (detail)

c. 1460
Oil on wood
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

In the second panel both the courtiers in their expensive fur-trimmed clothes and the other important personages in their robes and red bonnets, are openly astonished at the miracle that has taken place before their eyes.