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'''''The Entombment''''' is a [[glue-size]] painting on [[linen]] attributed to the [[Early Netherlandish painting|Early Netherlandish]] painter [[Dirk Bouts]]. It shows a scene from the biblical [[entombment of Christ]], and was probably completed between 1440 and 1455 as a wing panel for a large hinged [[polyptych]] [[altarpiece]]. The now-lost altarpiece is thought to have contained a central crucifixion scene flanked by four wing panel works half its height – two on either side – depicting scenes from the life of Christ. The smaller panels would have been paired in a format similar to Bouts' 1464–67 ''Altar of the Holy Sacrament''. The larger work was probably commissioned for export to Italy, possibly to a [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] patron whose identity is lost. ''The Entombment'' was first recorded in a mid-19th century [[Milan]] inventory and has been in the [[National Gallery]], London since its purchase on the gallery's behalf by [[Charles Eastlake]] in 1861.
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'''''The Entombment''''' is a [[glue-size]] painting on [[linen]] attributed to the [[Early Netherlandish painting|Early Netherlandish]] painter [[Dirk Bouts]]. It shows a scene from the biblical [[entombment of Christ]], and was probably completed between 1440 and 1455 as a wing panel for a large hinged [[polyptych]] [[altarpiece]]. The now-lost altarpiece is thought to have contained a central crucifixion scene flanked by four wing panel works half its height – two on either side – depicting scenes from the life of Christ. The smaller panels would have been paired in a format similar to Bouts' 1464–67 ''Altar of the Holy Sacrament''. The larger work was probably commissioned for export to Italy, possibly to a [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] patron whose identity is lost. ''The Entombment'' was first recorded in a mid-19th century [[Milan]] inventory and has been in the [[National Gallery]], London since its purchase on the gallery's behalf by [[Charles Eastlake]] in 1861.
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