Virgin and Child

This painting was executed in the workshop of Hans Traut. The painter was acquainted with Dieric Bouts the Elder's compositional models and figural types, but probably only through model drawings that had been transmitted to Germany. The painting is not a precise copy of Bouts's models. Like other German artists of the late fifteenth century, this painter appreciated and assimilated the Netherlandish style without the benefit of firsthand training.