0 Déploration du Christ - Dirk Bouts - RF 1 - Louvre 2

Dirk Bouts (1415—1475) was an Early Netherlandish painter. Very little is known about Bouts' early life, but he was greatly influenced by Jan van Eyck and by Rogier van der Weyden, under whom he may have studied. He is first documented in Leuven in 1457 and worked there until he died in 1475.