Studies of monsters and a donkey
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Bosch Project
Studies of monsters and a donkey
techniek: Pen and Ink on Paper, 32.1 x 21.1 cm
Bosch must have drawn considerably more than the twenty or so sheets that can be attributed to him today. The model sheet from Oxford, containing a collection of wondrous creatures, is most likely evidence of this. The drawing differs in style from Bosch’s autograph drawings, but it is interesting that parts of two gures in this sheet (one on the recto and one on the verso) also appear on the reverse of The Wood Has Ears, The Field Has Eyes. These little sketches are done in an uncertain hand, probably by an apprentice after an example by the master himself. The draughtsman of the Oxford sheet must have known and copied those inventions in their totality. There are grounds for supposing, therefore, that the figures in this drawing do indeed hark back to autograph sketches by Bosch. |  |
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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. 315-319.
Frédéric Elsig, Jheronimus Bosch. La question de la chronologie (Travaux d’Humanisme et de Renaissance), Geneva 2004, p. 135.
Jetske Sybesma Ironside, Hieronymus Bosch: An Investigation of His Underdrawings, Ph.D. dissertation (Bryn Mawr College) 1973, pp. 161, 183.
Jan Piet Filedt Kok, ‘Underdrawing and Drawing in the Work of Hieronymus Bosch: A Provisional Survey in Connection with Paintings by him in Rotterdam’, Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 6 (1972-73), p. 162.
Karel Boon and J. Bruyn, Jheronimus Bosch, ’s-Hertogenbosch 1967 (exh. cat. Noordbrabants Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch, 1967), no. 62.
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