Triptych with Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

The Triptych with Scenes from the Life of the Virgin is an oil painting on panel by the Early Netherlandish painter Dieric Bouts.

The painted "sculptures" around the arches of the portals derive from Rogier van der Weyden's Miraflores Altarpiece, from some three years earlier.

The visitation scene shows similarities with the version by Rogier van der Weyden in Leipzig, with both women meeting in a landscape and touching each other's pregnant wombs.

The attribution of the work to Bouts with Rogier van der Weyden influence only began to gain ground among specialist authors in the 1920s.

[1] Erwin Panofsky believed that the strong connection is evidence that the young Dieric Bouts attached himself to Petrus Christus early in his career.