The Mourning Virgin; Christ Crowned with Thorns – (Dieric Bouts) Previous Next


Artist:

Size: 41 x 32 cm

Technique: Oak

One of numerous copies of a lost original by Bouts, this diptych was produced perhaps fifty years after the master"s death. The best version of the composition, now in the Art Institute, Chicago, can be dated on the basis of scientific evidence between 1480 and 1495, or shortly after Bouts"s death. Well into the sixteenth century the workshop was active under the direction of Dieric"s sons, and our panels may well have been painted by an assistant there.

This artwork is in the public domain.

Artist

Download

Click here to download

Permissions

Free for non commercial use. See below.

Public domain

This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. However - you may not use this image for commercial purposes and you may not alter the image or remove the watermark.

This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.


Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Côte d'Ivoire has a general copyright term of 99 years and Honduras has 75 years, but they do implement that rule of the shorter term.