Infernal scene with tree-man
Workshop of Jheronimus Bosch
Bosch Project
Infernal scene with tree-man
techniek: Pen and Ink on Paper, 19.7 x 27.7 cm
The central motif on the recto of the hell scene from Dresden is a tree-man inspired by Bosch’s creation in The Garden of Earthly Delights (Cat. 21) and in the drawing in Vienna (Cat. 35). In the Viennese drawing, Bosch has surprisingly set the tree-man in a convincing, naturalistic setting, but the draftsman behind this work has placed the tree monster in a hellish landscape with a cannibal, a severed leg, and monstrously large fish. It is a fantastic scene, one of the many drawings, paintings, and engravings of this type created during the sixteenth century. However, the work lacks the finesse, credible line work, and coherence of the works by Bosch himself, which leads us to suspect it was made by someone in the master’s immediate surroundings. |  |
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Literatuur en bronnenpublicaties
Matthijs Ilsink, Jos Koldeweij, Ron Spronk, Luuk Hoogstede, Robert G. Erdmann, Rik Klein Gotink, Hanneke Nap and Daan Veldhuizen, Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman. Catalogue Raisonné, Brussels 2016, pp. 572-575.
Stefan Fischer, Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Works, Cologne 2013, p. 280.
Fritz Koreny, Hieronymus Bosch: die Zeichnungen: Werkstatt und Nachfolge bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts: catalogue raisonne´, Turnhout 2012, pp. 261-265.
Frédéric Elsig, Jheronimus Bosch. La question de la chronologie (Travaux d’Humanisme et de Renaissance), Geneva 2004, pp. 74, 227.
Stephanie Buck, Die niederländischen Zeichnungen des 15. Jahrhunderts im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett. Kritischer Katalog, Turnhout 2001, pp. 204, 227.
Fritz Koreny en Erwin Pokorny, ‘Hieronymus Bosch. Die Zeichnungen in Brüssel und Wien - The Drawings in Brussels and Vienna’, Delineavit et Sculpsit 24 (2001), pp. 15, 34.
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