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

Paradise

1450
Oil on wood, 115 x 69,5 cm
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille

A documented work by Bouts, a triptych of the Last Judgment, has unfortunately not survived. Two panels, representing Hell and Paradise, in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lille, were long believed to be part of this work. However, recent research has shown that this is not the case.