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Saint Hubertus (left) and Saint Catharine (right)
Aelbrecht Bouts·1514
Historical Context
Saint Hubertus and Saint Catharine, painted around 1514 and now in the Bryan Gallery of Christian Art, is an altarpiece panel by Aelbrecht Bouts depicting two saints together — Hubertus, patron saint of hunters (who experienced a vision of a stag bearing a crucifix between its antlers), and Catherine of Alexandria, the scholarly virgin martyr. Aelbrecht Bouts worked in Leuven, Belgium, continuing the workshop tradition established by his famous father Dieric Bouts. By 1514 the elder generation of Flemish masters was two generations past; Aelbrecht maintained the technical standards of his father's workshop while working within a more conservative stylistic framework. The Bryan Gallery of Christian Art holds devotional paintings in an institutional context focused on Christian imagery.
Technical Analysis
Oil on panel with the Flemish Bouts workshop's characteristic precise oil technique — the saints' attributes clearly rendered (Hubertus's stag, Catherine's wheel or sword), their costumes showing the careful material differentiation of different fabrics that the Flemish oil tradition excelled at. The two-figure altarpiece wing format places the saints in frontal or three-quarter poses against a neutral or landscape background.

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