1530-1540
Model Sheet With Beggars
Follower of Jheronimus Bosch
Bosch Project
Model Sheet With Beggars
techniek: Pen and Ink on Paper, 28.5 x 20.8 cm
There are two drawings of crippled beggars that can be linked to Bosch - one in Vienna and one in Brussels. Each is a model sheet - a collection of separate motifs used as a stock of examples in the workshop. The Vienna drawing was used around 1570-80 for a print, which stated that Hieronymus Bosch was the ‘inventor’ of the image. Figures from both drawings had previously been used - some time before 1540 - in a tapestry design showing Saint Martin cutting his cloak panel in two to share with the poor. The tapestry was one in a series of five listed in an inventory of King Francis I of France’s possessions in 1540 as having been made after designs by Bosch. These drawings are the work, therefore, of early followers of Bosch who might have been referring back to autograph work, as in the case of a model sheet in Oxford. Macrophotography enables us to compare the two drawings in detail. This reveals that the style in which the two drawings were done differs so much that we are led to believe that they were the work of two different artists. However, the drawing in Vienna has been reworked in a different ink, making it difficult to really compare the manner of execution between the two sheets. |  |
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Literatuur en bronnenpublicaties
Fritz Koreny, Hieronymus Bosch: die Zeichnungen: Werkstatt und Nachfolge bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts: catalogue raisonne´, Turnhout 2012, pp. 296-299.
Jetske Sybesma Ironside, Hieronymus Bosch: An Investigation of His Underdrawings, Ph.D. dissertation (Bryn Mawr College) 1973, pp. 161, 183.
G. Lemmens en E. Taverne, ‘Hieronymus Bosch: Naar aanleiding van de expositie in ’s-Hertogenbosch’, Simiolus 2 (1967-68), p. 87.
Karel Boon and J. Bruyn, Jheronimus Bosch, ’s-Hertogenbosch 1967 (exh. cat. Noordbrabants Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch, 1967), no. 50.
Ludwig von Baldass, Hieronymus Bosch, Vienna 1943, pp. 77, 79, 87, 89, 253.
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