Dieric Bouts – Virgin and Child – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435762
The Artist: Dieric Bouts was initially mentioned by Lodovico Guicciardini as “Dirick d’Haarlem� in his Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore.[1] According to Karel van Mander, whose Schilder-boeck of 1604 described the life and works of 250 European painters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Dieric Bouts was one of the founders of the Haarlem School of painting
loving relationship between a mother and her son, his portrayal emphasized human emotions
