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

The Execution of the Innocent Count (detail)

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

The count, dressed in white, barefoot and his hands bound, is led out to his execution. Several figures, including a Franciscan monk, accompany the condemned man, who is giving his last instructions to his wife as he walks.