Belonging to a group of paintings that tell the story of Christ in limbo, an episode taken from the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, this painting was executed by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch. Popular during medieval times and disappearing with the arrival of mannerism, this subject evokes an underground world, haunted by demons where the righteous dead roam without the grace of God, as well as infants who have died before being baptised.