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The Owl's nest
Jheronimus Bosch
Bosch Project
The Owl's nest
techniek: Pen and Ink on Paper, 14.0 x 19.6 cm
Bosch must have been fascinated by owls. They constituted a recurring element in his work, both in paintings and drawings. Generally he used them as a negative symbol in a broader context. In The Owl’s Nest, one of the most stunning drawings by Bosch known to us, he drew a trio of owls (possibly a family) in a tree. An owl with outstretched wings approaches a smaller one (an owlet?) peeking from a hollow in the treetrunk. The nocturnal predators are surrounded by other birds alarmed at their presence, and one of them dives straight at the owl in the treetop. Exceptional among drawings of the period is the close-up of the tree, which is accentuated by the wide-open landscape with a village in the background. The Owl’s Nest is not a sketch, but a highly finished drawing. The carefully balanced composition features birds that Bosch clearly loved, whatever his reasons may have been. |  |
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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. 494-497.
Stephanie Buck, Die niederländischen Zeichnungen des 15. Jahrhunderts im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett. Kritischer Katalog, Turnhout 2001, pp. 202-204, 209, 219, 236.
Peter van der Coelen, ‘Het uilennest circa 1505-1515’, in Yvonne Bleyerveld, Albert J. Elen and Judith Niessen, Nederlandse tekeningen uit de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Kunstenaars geboren voor 1581, Rotterdam (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) 2012.
Georg Dietz and Oliver Hahn, in T. Ketelsen, O. Hahn and P. Kuhlmann-Hodick (red.), Zeichnen im Zeitalters Bruegels. Die niederländischen Zeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts im Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinett. Beiträge zur einer Typologie, Dresden/Cologne 2011, pp. 123, 124, 128.
Frédéric Elsig, Jheronimus Bosch. La question de la chronologie (Travaux d’Humanisme et de Renaissance), Geneva 2004, pp. 110-112, 228.
Stefan Fischer, Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Works, Cologne 2013, pp. 51, 57, 271.
Matthijs Ilsink, Bosch en Bruegel als Bosch: kunst over kunst bij Pieter Bruegel (c. 1528–1569) en Jheronimus Bosch (c. 1450–1516), Edam 2009 (Nijmeegse Kunsthistorische Studies 17), pp. 35-37, 64-70
Fritz Koreny, Hieronymus Bosch: die Zeichnungen: Werkstatt und Nachfolge bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts: catalogue raisonne´, Turnhout 2012, pp. 190-195.
Ger Luijten, A.W.F.M. Meij, From Pisanello to Cezanne. Master Drawings from the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, New York/Cleveland 1990, pp. 51-53.
Pilar Silva Maroto (ed.), Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition, Madrid 2016, pp. 364-366 (Fritz Koreny).
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