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De Dood en de vrek

Jheronimus Bosch

Death and the Miser

techniek: Oil on Oak, 93 x 31 cm
locatie: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
accession number: 1952.5.33; BRCP Cat. 19.3 (pp. 316–335)

As the inside of the right-hand wing, Death and the Miser was originally part of the same triptych as the Ship of Fools (19.2a) and Gluttony and Lust (19.2b). Together, the latter two constituted the inside of the left-hand wing. When closed, the triptych revealed the Wayfarer (19.1).

In the center of the image is a man filling a bag with money. However, his behavior is rather ambivalent, as in his other hand he holds a rosary - a symbol antithetical to his activity. This figure returns in the background of the same scene, but now on his deathbed. Death personified enters the room. The miser is still torn between greed and devotion. He hesitates, not knowing whether to grab the moneybag that the devil holds out for him or to turn to the crucifix at top left, toward which the angel gestures. By not revealing the man’s choice, Bosch tries to get viewers to contemplate their own decisions.

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De Dood en de vrek

vervaardiger: Jeroen Bosch
datering: 1485-1490
techniek: olieverf op paneel, 83 x 31 cm
objectnummer: 1952.5.33
credit line: Samuel H. Kress Collection

Washington, National Gallery of Art

Dino Buzatti (inleiding), Kunstklasiekers : Bosch (2005) 128-129

Edward Cohen, De grote meesters : Jeroen Bosch (1975) 42-43 (nr. 10)

Gerrit van Hoven Bosch was hier (2013) 31

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. 316-335.

Matthijs Ilsink en Jos Koldeweij, Jheronimus Bosch : Visioenen van een genie (2016) 24-28 (nr. 4)

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Ella Nash (vertaling), Hieronymus Bosch (2004) 4-5

Larry Silver, Hieronymus Bosch, New York/London 2006, pp. 239-243.

De Dood en de vrek

Jheronimus Bosch

Death and the Miser

techniek: Oil on Oak, 93 x 31 cm
locatie: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
accession number: 1952.5.33; BRCP Cat. 19.3 (pp. 316–335)

De Dood en de vrek

vervaardiger: Jeroen Bosch
datering: 1485-1490
techniek: olieverf op paneel, 83 x 31 cm
objectnummer: 1952.5.33
credit line: Samuel H. Kress Collection

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De Dood en de vrek

Jheronimus Bosch

Death and the Miser

techniek: Oil on Oak, 93 x 31 cm locatie: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. accession number: 1952.5.33; BRCP Cat. 19.3 (pp. 316–335)

De Dood en de vrek

vervaardiger: Jeroen Bosch datering: 1485-1490 techniek: olieverf op paneel, 83 x 31 cm objectnummer: 1952.5.33 credit line: Samuel H. Kress Collection

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Bosch Project

National Gallery of Art

techniek: Oil on Oak, 93 x 31 cm
locatie: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
accession number: 1952.5.33; BRCP Cat. 19.3 (pp. 316–335)

vervaardiger: Jeroen Bosch
datering: 1485-1490
techniek: olieverf op paneel, 83 x 31 cm
objectnummer: 1952.5.33
credit line: Samuel H. Kress Collection