Saint Andrew and Saint Catherine with Donor

Aelbrecht Bouts painted Saints Andrew and Catherine with a Donor around 1500 in Leuven. The combination of two popular saints with a donor portrait follows the standard Netherlandish votive painting format. The Bouts workshop maintained consistent quality in such commissioned devotional works Altarpieces featuring rows of standing saints served both liturgical and devotional functions, identifying the church's patron saints and giving worshippers specific objects for personal prayer.

Oil on panel with the precise Bouts workshop technique. The saints' attributes and the donor's portrait are rendered with careful naturalism within the established devotional composition format.